2016 Postmortem

Warren Stupidity

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8. Yes. That is true.

Mon Jan 18, 2016, 02:06 PM

Jan 2016

That number is the reduction in average per employee employer costs comparing the 6.2% payroll tax to the current average per employee private insurance premium cost which the payroll tax replaces.

You seem to want to discuss how a public system can acheive such a large decrease in per employee costs, which is a related but different discussion. I will note however that the funding part of the proposal includes other non-payroll tax revenue streams. You have read the proposal, right?

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Single payer and private insurance. [View all] Warren Stupidity Jan 2016 OP

Americans are innumerate--when they want to be Proserpina Jan 2016 #1

Medicare's tax is not 6.2%, that is for Social Security CommonSenseDemocrat Jan 2016 #2

Sanders proposal sets an employer payroll tax of 6.2%. Warren Stupidity Jan 2016 #5

I think that rate might be a bit too low to fund single payer. CommonSenseDemocrat Jan 2016 #10

Perhaps you would benefit from reading the proposal. Warren Stupidity Jan 2016 #11

I want to see how we get a $10,000 reduction per family. I get the math, Hoyt Jan 2016 #3

That s a different argument. I am simply addressing Warren Stupidity Jan 2016 #6

You mention a $10,000 savings. Hoyt Jan 2016 #7

Yes. That is true. Warren Stupidity Jan 2016 #8

And if Mrs. Clinton becomes president, it will get worse, every year, until an actual Dem is Doctor_J Jan 2016 #4

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jan 2016 #9