Oh no! It’s… European centrist?! And a rogue Free Palestine with a steel chair from the corner!
These are a bit too left-leaning for European centrists. Especially the 32-hour-workweek, even in the most “socialist” European countries this is a position only taken by dedicated “leftist” parties.
It’s the taxes. There’s a reason people bike in Europe and not because it’s cute it’s because the high taxes on gas are used to support public transportation. Imagine being closer to the source and paying more because it’s taxed to shit. The high taxes on what we enjoy with just a price point to fund projects that never become complete or serve the direct purpose, is what bothers them.
That’s a lot of words to say they only care about themselves.
#1 question who’s gonna pay for it? Free isn’t free with those goods and services.
Given there’s a trillionaire class you could totally start a trust and in 5 years have enough money to fund all of those for 10 years worth of those good and services the questions are: how much do you want in the trust, how much do you think we should tax people to reach that goal and how are we going to make this work effectively because eit would have to be in the bench mark of the 200k$ and up class to make it effective.
Medical, Housing and Work Leave are the biggest that would cost the most you could make college free and make it go off of income as well but that’s still making pay just not up front.
Put it this way housing market in New Hampshire fuckin’ sucks and the taxes are a fuck load but there’s no sales tax because they evened it out.
So unless you can even these goods and services out effectivly in the way of where the hell are you getting the money to pay for these goods and services, you’re not getting far.
Doctors need to get paid, college professors need to get paid, housing authorities and landlords still need to get paid (and utilities and all that shit), like solar/wind/nuclear still needs funding.
It’s not that they don’t want it!!! They don’t know how to make it cost effective without it needing to accumulate in a treasury in the same amount of time it would take for 4 presidencies to go by before it could even be used and in that time the new presidents could scrap the trust.
It’s not gonna happen. I’m for it. It’ll never happen but I’m for it
It’s been said countless times. Americans are right now paying way more for these services than they would if it was paid through taxes. The secret to this little scheme, that only every single other devolped country has figured out, and has been fucking screaming at you for a century, is that you cut out the middle men. The shareholders at the hospital, the shareholders at the insurance company, the shareholders at the colleges, the loan sharks making billions off of people needing to survive.
It’s not very hard. Get rid of the people who only make profit off of people’s suffering instead of helping the situation, and you get a remarkebly better result. Those middlemen are nothing but leeches. They don’t actually do anything, they just siphon money out of the pockets of poor people.
America, the only place where this shit is happening, and for some reason, they’re hellbent on never looking at how other countries do it, and live in complete denial, thinking they’re the createst country in the world.
There’s only 1,000 billionaires in the US but there’s way more six figure earners. So where does that leave the middle class? Would the near poverty lower class be paying these taxes?
You also overlooked what I mentioned that relative to now it seems like a good idea, yes? Though, in the amount of time it would take to not only accumulate the amount of money through those taxes into a treasury, about 4 presidencies will have gone by, realistically 2 which would mean in the amount of time it would take for this to work the legislation behind it could go away, meaning it wouldn’t make a fucking difference and all those funds would dissolve back either into the social security trust or more likely the military funding or the national debt.
It would be a massive gamble to attempt it. You would be playing with a lot of people’s money.
Just show New York City’s rapid deterioration. Socialism IS scary for America. But so is Trump.
Those are all good ideas, but we can’t even afford to pay off the debt. So realistically getting this done is scary for people that realize it would require slave labor, and we are only getting that by villainizing one group of people and using force.
America flavored socialism is scary just in the way they think. Scary because it will suppress actual revolution for years. There will be some token efforts and in the end will be bluemaga