As an American, I can't get on board with that idea either. Politicians claim to fear socialism, but have no problem profiting from it themselves...they have universal health care, courtesy of the taxpayer.

Bc it benefits the rich. And they will keep lobbying politicians and brainwashing citizens to keep it that way. Funny how they are always so active and loud about politics while their political system doesn't take care of them at all.

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England, same.

Must be why so many Canadians cross the border into the US to pay for the lousy American care, right?

Leo H, care to prove that point? Facts and figures will suffice.

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Guns are not a human rite..it is a constitutional one. Second your medicine is cheaper because the latest drugs,tech,gear is developed in the us..so we are stuck footing the bill for research,developement,testing,fda approval

Patents exist. Companies who create a drug first will be the only ones allowed to produce it for a certain amount of time. So when cheaper alternative brands flush the market with the same products, those original companies have regain their research cost (and maybe much more). So no one is stuck here. They are just making deals with each other to eat off poor people.

There is a connection between both. Brainwash them enough to think that they have certain rights, and then give it to them by taking away other rights.

You're mistaken. Per the most recent US census, 21.3% of Americans participate in at least one welfare program, less than half of what you claim. Participation rates are highest for Medicaid (state health insurance program for low income residents). The next highest group is for food stamps, and a large percentage of this group works at a minimum wage job. Taxpayers are supplementing the income of low wage workers while the huge corporations they work for are profiting. Maybe if corporations actually paid their workers a living wage, the taxpayer bill for welfare programs would be lower. You're blaming those who are poor when you should be blaming the wealthy. While it's true that 44% of people don't pay federal income tax, it's because their incomes are extremely low. Still, all of that 44% pays sales taxes, excise taxes, and the like.

It is 100% not true that 48% of the country pays no taxes. Many people have incomes too low to be required to pay income taxes, but they pay sales tax and other taxes. In an opposite case, when Donald Trump was caught not paying income tax, his surrogates pointed out that he pays taxes; they just glossed over the distinction between income tax and other taxes. These same people, using a cruel double standard, will often claim the poor who don’t pay income taxes “pay no tax”.