Reply #7: Don't Deanies think that universal health care is going to reap such huge [View All]

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social rewards even in the short term that it will make sense to fund it from defecit spending? Won't it keep more people at work than on the sick bed? Won't it put a ton of cash in people's pockets, which they can then use to invest in savings accounts and education and starting small businesses, and buying fuel efficient cars, and homes in better neighborhoods, and more computers, and PDAs and other things which make them more effective and efficient workers and consumers, etc. etc?

Furthermore, won't universal health care take out so many irrationalities from the marketplace that we'll see an economic boom which is going to benefit IBM (by helping them sell more of their goods in a bigger, more rational economy) even more that it benefits healthy 20 year olds working for IBM?

If that's the case, why can't we fund it out of progressive taxation?

I don't understand why the middle class has to continue to be overburdened to pay for these things which create huge SOCIAL benefits that really accumulate among wealthy corporations as much as individuals.