I was pondering all this and I suddenly realized something about my own opinions that somewhat surprised me.
If - IF - I could just push a button and magically make "free" healthcare be one of FEW things that our government actually provided for us, "few things" meaning the list of junk the government churns out to people would be cut by about 50% or more - meaning we would go back to the 1960's where a man grew up knowing he was responsible for himself by working and earning paychecks like normal life has been for 1000's of years -
AND if the tax code was made fair, meaning, every single person and business paid a little bit in taxes - meaning we would eliminate the loopholes for those who can afford to hire accountants/lawyers, but we would equally eliminate the loopholes by which half the country is considered "too poor" to pay taxes, but rather, everyone would pay 10-15%........ Then, and in that case, I, even as a conservative Republican, would be perfectly happy to say "Ok. Let's provide free healthcare and take it from our taxes. Boom.
I honestly believe a lot of conservatives, even the ones who were staunchly opposed to Obamacare for many good reasons, might agree with me.
If only.
The problem is we can't seem to cut out the 50% or more of the government spending that's just purely ridiculous.
IF only we could, we might find we all here in America COULD in fact, agree on providing free healthcare.
Every politician who sponsors a law is full of questions like "how can you be against THIS?" but of course the question really isn't that simple.
It's never just "this". It's "all that plus now this".
Dear citizens of the United States, who would rather have free, imperfect but reasonably ok, healthcare, instead of
these:
- Taxpayers are rolling the dice on a high-stakes study that aims to untangle the psychology of gambling addiction – by building a casino for pigeons. The National Institute of Health has sent nearly half a million dollars to uber-liberal Reed College in Portland, Ore., where researchers are taking three years to create a “self-contained miniature economy” for the school’s flock of birds. The pigeons receive currency-like tokens that they can “earn, accumulate, spend, or gamble” on slot machines, Dr. Timothy Hackenberg explained in the project’s abstract. But even he admits the “practical applications” of his work are few.
- Transgendered Monkeys, Cost: $477,121
A Florida lab is dosing male rhesus macaques with feminizing hormones – intent on turning them trans. The experiment, funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, aims to figure out why male-to-female transgender humans suffer high levels of HIV infection. “HIV/AIDS thrives in the margins of society,” reads the uber-woke project description. “No population is more affected by these social injustices than transgender persons.” The scientists suspect estradiol, the hormone commonly given to transgender women, may weaken the immune system
- “Zombie” Russian Cats Cost: $549,331
Grisly experiments in a Russian lab turned cute kitties into electrically-controlled zombies – with the help of the US government. Researchers at the Pavlov Institute of Physiology in St. Petersburg, Russia were paid by the US National Institutes of Health to “decerebrate” 18 healthy cats, severing their brain stems to prevent movement while keeping them alive. The ghoulish scientists then used electrical charges to make the cats walk on treadmills, transforming them into the walking kitty dead.
