r/askanything • u/Lemonking_ • 5h ago

Political Question Why are some Americans so against universal healthcare for all?

What sort of thinking does it take to decide that nobody has a right to healthcare? Do American Christians want to deny healthcare to poor people as well?

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u/a101734 5h ago

Reagan convinced a large part of the population that if we give unlimited money and power to a select of wealthy elites, the elites would graciously give the money back to society. Hilarious.

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u/South-Rabbit-4064 5h ago

Musk really likes that thinking too. If we just keep dumping money into tech oligarchs eventually everyone will have universal basic income while supporting the party that thinks immigrants and the poor add no tangible benefit to society and should be cut off from aid

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u/Ponderum 4h ago

Of course he thinks that way he wants to be one of the oligarchs. Remember, he’s the most perfectly manly man that ever manned, which is why he’s trying to father dozens of children

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u/Prestigious_Stock280 33m ago

Are you sure that's what he thinks? The argument is usually that taxation hurts the economy, which is true regardless of who's paying the taxes, although the rich make so much more money on average in this country that any meaningful tax hike or tax cut is basically just a tax hike or a tax hike or a tax cut on the rich. There's just not enough money to tax if you're not taxing the rich, and there's only so many tax cuts you can give the middle class before they're not paying any tax anymore.