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BocaHoo91

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Couple of thoughts


1) Not sure I agree eliminating the electoral college would make the power THAT concentrated, but yeah, states like NH, Montana, etc would be totally ignored when it comes to presidential elections, although to a certain extent they currently are already (other than the NH primary process). They would still have 1/50th representation in the Senate despite being 1/300th of the population
2) Medicare for all would need to be funded by employers. The give back is they don't have to provide employer sponsored insurance. The average employer paid premiums are $6k for single employees and $15K for family coverage. Let's call it $10K on average per employee. I think if you went to employers and said we're going to provide medicare for all, but we need you to pay 8% of payroll, up to a cap of $100K or $125K of salary, they'd jump all over it. Then on the medicare for all reimbursement side, you crank current medicare reimbursement rates way back and force providers to find cost savings, efficiencies.
3) Agree we can't have unlimited immigration. Would like a more realistic path to citizenship for immigrant though.
4) Mostly agree on EIC. Would rather investigate some sort of GBI but then eliminate all other welfare programs
5) Reduce defense... do we really need to outspend the Chinese by nearly 3x to "keep up"?
6) East less meat. Yeah, I did an eye roll on that, but not my biggest issue and would go nowhere.

(In response to this post by Hoogle.com)

Posted: 09/25/2020 at 7:41PM



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