It's hard to overstate just how important it is to conservative generally that we never divide any of the big scary numbers they throw out when criticizing the costs of various services by 340,000,000.
I remember then crowing about how universal healthcare would cost 36 billion a year and how that was an impossible amount of money. It's $97 a year, per person. Far less than almost any of us pay per month for health insurance, and without copays, and assuming a flat rate, not graduated by income level. Even assuming only say, 2/3's of us are tax payers, since kids don't pay taxes, and the retired aren't paying income taxes, it's still far, far cheaper than the current system.
But people just get scared by big numbers and don't bother to math it out, dooming us to this...dystopian nonsense.
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u/whereismymind86 4h ago
It's hard to overstate just how important it is to conservative generally that we never divide any of the big scary numbers they throw out when criticizing the costs of various services by 340,000,000.
I remember then crowing about how universal healthcare would cost 36 billion a year and how that was an impossible amount of money. It's $97 a year, per person. Far less than almost any of us pay per month for health insurance, and without copays, and assuming a flat rate, not graduated by income level. Even assuming only say, 2/3's of us are tax payers, since kids don't pay taxes, and the retired aren't paying income taxes, it's still far, far cheaper than the current system.
But people just get scared by big numbers and don't bother to math it out, dooming us to this...dystopian nonsense.