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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: epicure who wrote (233785)10/7/2013 4:16:14 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 542245
 
Looks to me as if we've had our say. And gotten back to our basic disagreement, e.

For me, the immediate issue is not an intergenerational one but an income/wealth inequality issue. And the last thirty something years have been deadly on that score. And it's also about how we keep what remains of the safety net in place, funded at reasonably acceptable levels. Unfortunately, those levels are much lower than in the past. As the piece I posted noted.

So I gather our differences go like this. You think the ss gets fixed by further taxing the benefits themselves and I think it gets fixed by taxing income above the current levels. I'm not certain how you think health care costs get addressed. I think it should be by single payer systems in which the taxes are genuinely progressive. And the insurance system moves out of the work place.

I gather you think the fix is to tax the medicare benefits in some fashion. I'm just not certain.

But, most of all, I just simply think we frame it differently, have tried to reach some agreement on the nature of the framing difference, and have done so.
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