Reply #19: "suitable tax on the businesses to help pay for it" [View All]

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I don't think we need a tax on businesses to help pay for universal healthcare. For one thing, we need to divorce the idea that one's healthcare should be tied to one's job; that's a form of slavery. According to Dennis Kucinich, we already pay enough in taxes to have single-payer healthcare; we just have to divert some of the huge amount of tax $ flowing into military coffers so that the U.S. can join the civilized world & offer its citizens universal healthcare. To lurking Freak Republic members: a healthier workforce is a more productive workforce. We can't compete with the civilized countries because it's so much more expensive to do business here because of the expense of offering employees republican healthcare that is extremely expensive, and we have a sicker, less productive workforce due to not having universal healthcare.