Those people don't have any real principles.

They're a lot like MAGA: their preferred "in-group" can do whatever they want—and no matter what, it's good!—while the "out-group" can't (even if it's the exact same thing).

Don't forget that if you reframe campaigns/politics like this, some idiots will start to only support the ones that give them the most "swag."

So smaller campaigns that can't afford this type of charity are screwed.

But for tankies that's great! They won't need to work as hard to convince idiots.

Tankies really are psychotic.

Please contact your CCP overlords to get back on your medication ASAP.

Whenever I think of Urban Meyer I’m reminded he:

1) Was so detrimental to their image that the **Jaguars** fired him.

2) Got caught dancing with women who weren't his wife at a local bar.

3) Kicked the kicker.

It feels a bit like the sex ed problem. The students are gonna do the thing. Some people might wish they wouldn’t. Reasonable people (excluding the loud minority of extremists) can argue the disagree impact on health. But they _will_ do it, so how do we educate so that they don’t get hurt?

"You guys"? Literally said we should make universal work.

Obviously it would be taxes. I want to know *how* the taxes would work, not just someone saying "billionaires pay for it!" like they've never bothered to us a calculator before.

This is why we need way more economists and math majors.

Yes, we can figure out ways to make it work and we should; but the math should actually work so it's not a year or two before crashing and burning.

A billion dollars is a lot of money to an individual, but to the government it's peanuts.

Actually that's just 442,673 mortgage *payments* of $2,259.

So it'd actually be even fewer mortgages getting fully paid off with that $1bil.

So we could fund one year of health coverage for everyone in the US by seizing all that money, but after that we're on our own (because the billionaires would be broke).

$1,000,000,000 / 342,000,000 = $2.92.

If we immediately seized all the money from all US billionaires (let's assume $6.2 trillion), everyone would get a onetime $18,128 payment.

But if we seized that money we'd never be able to tax that money again.

Based on the median monthly mortage payment, you could pay off 442,673 mortgages ($1,000,000,000 / $2,259).

No small feat, but not as much as I was expecting.

Tankie can't even respond 😂

Fucking idiots.

So you're advocating for the exact same thing that everyone is complaining about health insurance companies doing?

People who don't need to die dying.

So murdering millions of people is your answer?

Cool. No wonder he's not listening to people who think that way.

So none of the people pestering him about this specific problem actually know the answer of how it'd work?

Or they do know, and they just can't be bothered to help explain to him how their idea is actually super easy and feasible to do?

Big picture thinking is easy. Anyone can do it.

Turning an idea into reality, and making sure it actually works is the hard part.

And that's what never gets answered in his replies.

Are you implying Mark defends those sorts of decisions? Also he has just said he's open to universal.

But I think he's looking for a response with the actual "how" part answered (or at least seemingly considered).

Not just "the US is richest country!"