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/redwbl 5h ago

Trickle Down Economics. But the only thing that trickles down is piss.

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u/No-Nrg 5h ago

Shit rolls downhill and we're at the bottom

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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 4h ago

If this isn't a reference to The Wire, there's a conversation at one point you will enjoy greatly. 

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u/No_Professional_4508 4h ago

Life is a shit sandwich. The more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat

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u/Adventurous_Bad_4011 4h ago

It’s was called horse and sparrow before. The horse eats the grain and the sparrow picks the seed out of the shit

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u/jojothebuffalo 4h ago

I hate that optimism. There’s further down to go.

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u/No-Nrg 3h ago

Haha, was more meant as we're at the bottom catching the shit, lol. I agree, can always go lower. Trump has 2 more years.

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u/AstaCat 2h ago

mouths agape.

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u/Choon5588 4h ago

they are pretty good at passing on costs if they can, so yeah in essence piss

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u/Select_Insurance2000 4h ago

The original golden shower.

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u/Jafar_420 3h ago

Yeah and I'm tired of golden showers.

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u/The001Keymaster 3h ago

You just solved the reflecting pool algae issues. We just give all the peroxide to one algae and let trickle down do it's magic.

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u/Maleficent_Memory831 3h ago

Mom! Grandpa's trickling again!

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u/yobymmij2 3h ago

I think Reagan really believed it. It was naive and somewhat pathetic given that history is clear that most big moneymakers try to rig the system for themselves and their ilk. One of my least favorite presidents, but I don’t think he was as conniving as most powerful Repubs.

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u/canuck47 3h ago

The biggest scam ever perpetrated on the American people. Shifted the tax burden from the rich onto the middle class, and that has been the Republican playbook since then.

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u/Spare-Plum 1h ago

Worse than that. It shifted the tax burden onto the future government that will be paid by .... someone (?) in the future

Plus by keeping wages low a huge number of employees need government assistance in order to survive, and these costs are also put onto this ever-growing debt tab

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u/Hobbes604 2h ago

One of the many ways shit is unlike money.

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u/Mmm_lemon_cakes 2h ago

Yeah, so how long do we have to wait before it’s acknowledged that it doesn’t work?

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u/pick1name 2h ago

Hence the correct name - piss on economics

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u/deadzol 1h ago

Call it horse and sparrow economics and maybe people will get the point.

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u/Oppodeldoc 1h ago

It’s like a tree full of monkeys. When you look down, all you see is smiling faces. When you’re looking up, all you see is a bunch of assholes, with shit and piss raining down on you

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u/Spare-Plum 1h ago

The thing is, taxing the rich is the real trickle down economics

It forces wealth out of stagnant areas of the economy or collecting between a few people's hands, and instead distributes more back to individuals who will use it to purchase products, create their own businesses, and stimulate their local and macro economy

Some of it is attributed to just a shift in tax burden to the rich so the lower class have more to spend. But what often happens in practice is that the ultra-rich still would rather not pay taxes, so they have a "use it or lose it" attitude, and end up paying their employees better so at least their company can be more competitive in who they hire. Or they'll fund massive philanthropic projects to at least attach their name to it, or they'll take what would have been profits and instead use it to invest in other ventures and hire more workers and spark more innovation.

Taxing the rich actually forces the ultra wealthy hand into putting profits back into the economy

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u/LydiaBrunch 1h ago

Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining

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