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Quote:Complain about the unfairness of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The GOP was not allowed a rebuttal to this video seen by 4.3 million about Trump and Attorney General Barr. Hang in there for 60 seconds, 6ix:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah.
Tell it to Rachel Maddow's millions, Second.
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Best Punchline: "If Bill Barr were the President's lawyer, he'd be in prison right now."
If you have to explain a joke, it is not funny, but Trump's lawyer is in prison.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Not really worried what the opinions of the 4.3 million people who watch Stephen Colbert are. The 1 to 2% of people who tune into that show regularly are so far gone their minds have already been corrupted. If that number were to expand to say 10 million over the course of the next 6 years, that would be cause for concern.
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Behind the scenes, Democrats in Washington are trying to think about what they’ll do if the party wins the White House in 2021 on a Medicare-for-all platform. A Medicare for Kids Only program could accomplish a couple of key things. For one, it would cover the 4 million children who still lack health insurance.
It’s cheaper than Medicare-for-all, meaning it could be paid for with relatively modest and politically popular tax hikes on the rich and provide a clear, simple benefit to millions of families. New polling shows it’s an extremely popular idea. And most importantly, because kids would age out of the program rather than aging into it, they and their parents would create a natural constituency for further expansions so they can hold on to a benefit they currently enjoy and would fear losing.
Asked “would you (support or oppose/oppose or support) extending universal health care to all American children by giving all Americans under the age of eighteen coverage in a government health plan modeled off of Medicare, known as ‘Medicare for Kids?’” a solid 54 percent of the public said they supported the idea, with just 27 percent opposed. Fifty-three percent of whites like the idea, and African Americans support it 66 to 17.
This is similar to what the Kaiser Family Foundation finds for Medicare-for-all, so it’s natural that progressives continue to push for their dream solution. But in the past, initially well-polling state-level single-payer health care pushes have collapsed once the extent of the needed tax hikes becomes clear. It’s possible Medicare-for-all proponents will overcome those obstacles, but if they don’t, Medicare for Kids suggests itself as a drastically cheaper fallback.
More at www.vox.com/2019/4/29/18516408/medicare-for-kids
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Nope. No support for medicare 4 kids.
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Quote:That is no surprise since most Republican Congressmen were opposed to "Original" Medicare in 1965. If their votes had been needed, there would be no Medicare today, but the Democrats had the numbers even if every Republican had voted no.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nope. No support for medicare 4 kids.
57 Democrats voted for Medicare out of 100 Senators. The Republicans couldn't stop Medicare, even if they tried.
237 Democrats voted for Medicare out of 435 Representatives. Again, Republicans couldn't stop Medicare.
www.ssa.gov/history/tally65.html
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I don't have a problem with medicare.
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Quote:Are you sure? You've complained about the tax taken from your paycheck: the Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax (FICA) to fund Social Security and Medicare.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I don't have a problem with medicare.
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Republican Congressmen "support" Medicare. Which means they want to "reform" the program: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in a round of media interviews after the Treasury Department reported that the federal budget deficit increased 17 percent year over year, to $779 billion in fiscal 2018 said, “It’s disappointing, but it’s not a Republican problem. It’s a bipartisan problem: unwillingness to address the real drivers of the debt by doing anything to adjust those programs to the demographics of America in the future.” He added that by “entitlement reform,” he was “talking about Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.”
Every time Republicans have tried to alter these programs, they have paid a political price at the polls. They keep trying to "reform" because repeal will get them removed at the next election.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-16/mcconnell-blames-entitlemen
ts-not-gop-for-rising-deficits
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Are you sure? You've complained about the tax taken from your paycheck: the Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax (FICA) to fund Social Security and Medicare.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I don't have a problem with medicare.
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I have a problem with how it is taxed. Sure.
Going to have a much bigger problem with how it's taxed if I'm funding other people's kids and still don't have insurance myself.
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Quote:That is why the Republicans have a big advantage over Democrats. Democratic politicians know you have to pay, while Republican politicians know that the majority of voters don't want to pay. The winner tends to be the don't wanna pay Republican politicians, who also slip in LARGE tax cuts for the wealthy riding piggyback on tiny tax cuts for everyone else.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I have a problem with how it is taxed. Sure.
Going to have a much bigger problem with how it's taxed if I'm funding other people's kids and still don't have insurance myself.
Another big advantage Republican politicians have is that they know in their gut nobody wants new programs for anybody but themselves. Democratic politicians are always falling into the trap of making programs broadly available for everybody, but people don't like that. They want programs targeted exclusive for themselves. With a program like Medicare-for-Kids-Only, all the childless people and all the people with grown-up-children don't want a program for Kids Only. Republicans can use that against Medicare-for-Kids-Only.
If Democrats try Medicare-for-All, the people that already have health insurance aren't getting anything new. The Republicans can use that against the Democrats.
The system can easily be jammed, or rusted in place, or stuck in the mud, by Republicans using a particular voter's unwillingness to pay for programs that aren't exclusively for that particular voter.
What happens is that Democrats temporarily get a majority in Congress because of a scandal like Herbert Hoover's idiotic handling of the Great Depression or Bush's Iraq War/Crash of 2008, then the Democrats pass some new programs, voters realize that all the benefits are not going exclusively to themselves, then the Republicans are back in power.
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Looks like I've managed to avoid this thread since 16 December. And mostly just Trolls posting, hope I didn't miss anything.
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