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16. 2.9% FICA share only covers 38% of Medicare spending. General revenue covers 41%/

Sun Nov 1, 2015, 09:53 PM

Nov 2015

So you are wrong about your claim. Quite wrong. Here's a lot of information from kff.org:
http://kff.org/medicare/fact-sheet/medicare-spending-and-financing-fact-sheet/

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European countries have a VAT that hovers between 20% and 25% [View all] Recursion Oct 2015 OP

In Germany, we're still at 19% DFW Oct 2015 #1

Only if there were no other costs. ileus Oct 2015 #2

To be fair SoCalNative Oct 2015 #3

A graduated VAT combined with a $15 minimum wage with a real COLA Fumesucker Oct 2015 #5

And that's about 14% of the population Recursion Oct 2015 #8

No. You are being purposely deceptive with your numbers. dawg Nov 2015 #14

"Forced to admit"? I claimed we cover 14% of *people* with Medicare Recursion Nov 2015 #15

Medicare parts B and D aren't funded by the payroll tax, PoliticAverse Oct 2015 #10

Considering that medical (Medicare, supplemental, drug plan) Downwinder Oct 2015 #7

I guess the beauty of the VAT 1939 Oct 2015 #9

Only if not given other options. Donald Ian Rankin Nov 2015 #12

We pay twice as much per capita NOW compared to these countries eridani Nov 2015 #17