is required payin to private health insurance attempted dissolution of Reagan affluence ?

[dusmcj]

interesting thought: by 'forcing' Americans to contribute a significant percentage of their income to the US insurance industry - a corrupt bunch of vermin in line with their Republican smegma-mates - is someone (who ?) achieving the effect of demolishing the Reagan-era affluence based on bubble economies which arose as the working and middle classes fell ? Is this effectively a realignment of wealth which will create conditions similar to other developed nations in that the effective marginal tax rate for middle class and up is far higher than currently in the US ?

Personally, I wouldn't necessarily channel the money into national monopoly industries; in the other developed nations, there is actually more competition in that market layer than in the US. (There's also more intelligence among the participants and less corruption.)

Also, in general, the realignment of wealth between the beneficiaries of 350 years of western imperialism and the descendants of the exploited can occur in a controlled rational fashion, or in a demolition of the public's advantage across the board, which will benefit only the traditional ruling classes.

Count on my not supporting politicians, other individuals and also parties who abet such results. And as the man in the movie said (paraphrasing) if you think I'm the only one, you're a stupid man.

I'm not pursuing my class interests, to paraphrase a Marxist acquaintance from a time when there still were Marxists to be acquainted with; I'm pursuing the objective interests of the species. We don't need to replace one set of shitbag kings with another, your tribe is no better than the one that thinks to rule us now.

Objectivity, rationalism, intellect and pursuit of and striving to apprehend truth aren't cultural values to be relativised and replaced by others which are equally valid; tribalism and dominance hierarchies, and indulgence of human weakness and mediocrity explained away with the figleaf of "human nature", are. Bu-bye.

[marybourg]

1. Reagan-era affluence ? Reagan-era affluence ?

Surely you didn't mean what that sounds like. You do remember, don't you, Reagan's scapegoating attacks on federal employees and auto workers as overpaid, underworked drones. Reagan-era affluence? Maybe you mean pre-Reagan era affluence.

[dusmcj]

2. I mean Reagan-era bubble affluence which created vast new wealth in the high percentiles of the pop

[enlightenment]

3. You do realize that stringing a series of multi-syllabic words

together does not necessarily create a coherent thought, right?

To answer your question - the only vaguely coherent part of your post - no, I don't believe that requiring the lower and middle classes to pay into the health insurance system will 'realign' wealth in this country.


edited for clarity

[dusmcj]

4. yawn, don't let the strain get you down, your handle seems a little ambitious /nt