Quote Originally Posted by m0nde View Post
one thing that's hilarious is that the aging population in the US does get free healthcare with medicare and they're paying zero taxes to support it
but people like marks have no access to it and are supporting these people
You're right, medicaid is a problem. I don't understand why you believe that expanding it would make it less of a problem.

no tax hike is needed, just take even 5% of the military budget and move it to health care to provide some basic coverage for everyone else.
We should cut the military by way more than 5%, and rather than blowing it on some other needless bullshit we should lower taxes or fund some of the programs that are already in place. You mentioned the 50's as when our quality of life started going downhill, interesting that the 50's right around the time when it suddenly became our job to defend the entire western hemisphere. I wonder how much higher your taxes would be if you had to fund your own military?