bit of both. Right wing when it comes to immigration, left wing when it comes to social programs.
bit of both. Right wing when it comes to immigration, left wing when it comes to social programs.
Left-wing, but my family wasn't that political until I became interested in politics.
Mixed, liberal dad, conservative mom.
I grew up in an extremely right wing, racist, homophobic family until I came out as gay, and then both of my parents immediately flipped to left wing. My Mom joined PfLAG and marches in parades (which I don't do). My dad watches Bill Maher. I don't even do that.
Not so much right-wing, but definitely conservative, though they seemed to think they were hip and with the times. They were kind of hypocrites, really. I still love them but I must say, I learned more from my school teachers than them about history, culture, religion, and politics.
I guess the best word to describe them would be backwards yuppies.
I grew up in a small town in Norway where everybody essentially voted for Labour, since the town is mostly centered around the industry of its factory.
I guess I was somewhat of a reactionary centrist when I was a little younger. I thought feminism was stupid, didn't understand the experiences of trans people and other stuff.
Took a hard turn left during my Master Thesis in graduate school after learning more about the world and how damaging capitalism and the ideology of the status quo can be, I guess.
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Politics never was discussed that I remember. Finding work so we could eat was the main topic. Traveling from state to state as migrant farm workers, we never stayed anywhere long enough to vote and it was a life style choice my family made. One I did not want and left when I was old enough to do so.
" If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.." - Abraham Lincoln
“ The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to - prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms..” - Samuel Adams
The current US federal budget: around $4 trillion.
Current US health care government spending: around $1 trillion.
Projected cost of universal health care: around $2 trillion.
US defense budget: $600 billion.
Let's assume universal health care results in some incredibly optimistic savings and it only costs $1.5 trillion instead of $2 trillion. The US would still need to either:
1. COMPLETELY wipe out its defense budget to pay for it.
2. raise taxes substantially to the point where the US is noncompetitive on the global marketplace.
More realistically, universal health care will overshoot spending projections and wind up around $2.3 to $2.5 trillion.
Its just not gonna happen. Ever. The US will never go to universal health care (unless it is only for very very basic, simple and cheap procedures) because the ONLY possible way it will work is if the US scraps its military budget.
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Father and mother both social-democrats. Grandparents on my father's side both very conservative Christians (right wing) and grandfather on my mother's side was center left. I'm a social-democrat too (center left) and my wife is a socialist, my son is green-left.
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Let's say universal healthcare comes down to cost us between 9.8-11% of gdp like every other country? Note that on healthcare the USA currently spends 17.9% of gdp on it while every other universal healthcare state pays between 9-11% for the most part.
The reason universal healthcare wouldn't be cheap in America has to purely do with inflated healthcare cost, unless healthcare cost are brought down of course it is going to be expensive. It is already costing us as a percent of gdp many times more than others pay. despite the fact we don't cover everyone and that's because shit that is 200 in other countries can cost 16000 and that's fucking literally 16000
We don't have to raise taxes we just simply need to bring the cost of healthcare down like every other country
If x company wants to sell their insulin to Americans then they will be forced to sell it at $15 else they don't get a government contract and when everyone is covered by the government that means no money for them so they will make it $15 it is why it is $12-13 in Canada yet in America it magically cost $275? That $275 cost for a drug that sells everywhere else for $12-$25 is why universal healthcare doesn't work unless we bring down the prices to what is reasonable.
Hardcore homophobic and racist household. Definitely far right wing household.
Forget all that, forget the argument he just made.
Just look purely at GDP percentage spent.
American spends damn near 18% of gdp while not covering everyone and most states (countries) spend 9-12% while covering everyone.
So his argument of "it is the military spending!" Is bullshit and wrong, the issue is something that cost 200 elsewhere cost 16k here. That drugs that cost $20 in other countries the same companies (which are usually American companies) sell it there at $200 a pill vs $20 a refill.
Absolutely no one is claiming the US can have universal health care and not raise taxes. That is impossible. They will go up substantially.
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Europe is covered by the US military via the NATO pact which obligates it to protect it in case it gets invaded. The NATO pact doesn't obligate the US to station a huge freaking army in Germany. Armies are mobile and at the first sign of aggression, the US can move in to protect Europe. That means Europe is free to not spend anything on military and can pour resources into universal health care.
That why one republican option is to tell Europe to either start paying a defense tax to the US or the US drops out of the NATO pact and won't protect Europe. Europe can build its own military to stop Putin or China or whomever else, and cut its universal health care to cover it.
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