Again, we try every single way we can not to provide universal healthcare for everyone, and again wind up with a grotesque patchwork of measures that dam up leaks here and there while opening up new holes elsewhere. How about we stop kidding ourselves that Republicans care at all about the general public? While they hold any power, nothing will ever get done for the majority of Americans. All the Republicans do is protect wealthy people from paying their fair share of taxes. And don’t give me that baloney about how the rich pay more taxes than anyone else. When they are paying at least thirty percent of their income from all sources—including passthroughs and offshored wealth and capital gains—in taxes every year, then maybe they will finally approach what the rest of us pay every damn year. Maybe then the rest of us will stop agitating for them to pay up!And instead of cutting the social safety net, which is already in tatters from decades of Republican attacks on it, let’s start chopping the military budget. Let’s put our money toward life, not death!

Again, we try every single way we can not to provide universal healthcare for everyone, and again wind up with a grotesque patchwork of measures that dam up leaks here and there while opening up new holes elsewhere. How about we stop kidding ourselves that Republicans care at all about the general public? While they hold any power, nothing will ever get done for the majority of Americans. All the Republicans do is protect wealthy people from paying their fair share of taxes. And don’t give me that baloney about how the rich pay more taxes than anyone else. When they are paying at least thirty percent of their income from all sources—including passthroughs and offshored wealth and capital gains—in taxes every year, then maybe they will finally approach what the rest of us pay every damn year. Maybe then the rest of us will stop agitating for them to pay up!And instead of cutting the social safety net, which is already in tatters from decades of Republican attacks on it, let’s start chopping the military budget. Let’s put our money toward life, not death!

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