Questions to the Forum Youth

Curious on the social leanings here and just wondering:

1 Would you accept a additional 30% tax on your income to provide universal healthcare for all americans?

2. Would you accept a additional 10% tax on yout income to provide universal education through secondary level for all americans.

These taxes would be in addition to the current tax schedules. (approximately 30% to include income, state, sales, etc)

So that would leave you with only approximately 30% of your income to you, but you would have health care, and education. Is that the system you would prefere?
(check european tax schedules for standardized social benifits)

3. Should universal health care standard be determined for lifestyle, for example if you smoke, drink, practice unsafe sex, and make personal lifestyle decesions that are harmfull to your health should you recieve more benifits, or less based on personal lifestyle?

4. Should personal health vices be higher taxed (alcohol, tobacco, video games (eye strain), music (hearing loss), etc?

5. Should healthcare be limited to two children per mother, in order to keep it manageable, if not what would be a practical financial limit?

6. Should energy be rationed, electricity, gasoline, fuel oil etc, in order to control consumption and pricing, as well as universal availability?

7. Should individual and family housing be limited in size in order to be more efficient and fair in energy consumption?

Just seeing where we are here on the Socialist meter.



Edited by oldsoldier - 28 March 2007 at 7:32pm

BUT, if there is one thing i've learned from politics, is that you get absolutely NOWHERE trying to discuss these things. sure its fun to argue but in the end all you do is get wrapped up in it and always wind up getting upset.

to me its easier to sit on the sidelines and worry about the things i CAN control. (serenity prayer anyone? serenity to accept the things i cannot change)

the forum youth doesn't have enough patience to do the survey.

tl;dl

1. No.
2. No.
3. No universal healthcare eliminates this question.
4. Maybe tobacco and alcohol, but not music or video games. I think marijuana should be legalized and heavily taxed.
5. Once again, not having socialist healthcare eliminates this question.
6. No.
7. No.



Edited by phillll227 - 28 March 2007 at 8:09pm

Clark Kent wrote:   Somehow, my head has not exploded.

But it might when OS breaks the record for number of redundant political threads started in one day.

Now you're hating on socialists? It never ends.

20K in healthcare annually.....really poor HC plan there troop. See if you enlisted and retired it would be FREE...............everything has its price, my price for free health care was time.

Da momma still pays into the City of Lincoln plan, but I believe it is only like $47.00 every two weeks, government employees go figure, and we still use it for minor things instead og the lines and time at the VA or tri-care fiasco.

I just want an option...believe me "socialized" medicine like the VA and Tri-care is just a fiasco to partake in. Never see the same doc twice in a row, Primary Care physician appointments impossible to get, walk in sick, care nurse hands you a bucket of medications and gives you an appointment (hopefully that week). Unless you are at deaths door, care is better at the local LinCare clinic, staffed by non-government employees.

Edited by oldsoldier - 28 March 2007 at 8:57pm

hit send before finished...

Ah.

I agree that the VA, from my understanding, is not a model we want to expand.  I rather like my expensive health care (self-employed, so I pay double), and would very much like to keep it.

But other countries have managed better single-payer systems than the VA.  Simply because the VA is awful doesn't mean that it has to be that way.  Nor do we have to copy what others have done.  I am sure that a market-based approach would be welcomed. 

The bottom line is that there are millions of Americans, including millions of children, that have no health care coverage whatsover - and that is bad and wrong for a whole host of reasons.  It is frankly simply an unacceptable state of affairs.

So to answer your first question - would I accept some additional taxation if it meant 100% health coverage, at least to a minimal level, of all Americans? 

Absolutely.

1. No
2. No, the majority of the youth is full of morons and they don't give a damn.
3. Yes, if you do harmful things to your body, you don't deserve universal health care
4. Yes, but not for petty things such as video games or music
5. No - what should it be? Not sure, maybe something a system like you mentioned above, where it depends on life styles
6. No
7. Yes - allow more land for businesses, farms, etc. Hell, maybe prevent eminent domain from stealing land.

Edited by ¤ Råp¡Ð F¡rè ¤ - 28 March 2007 at 9:26pm