"I did not expect the leopards to eat my face!" Said the woman who voted for The Leopards Eating Faces Party
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"You commie liberals better keep your government hands off my Medicare!"
I'm not American, but this happens a lot more than you'd think.
I live in Canada.
A relative of a friend actually voted for a party called "the People's party of Canada", and one of their goals as a party was to eliminate subsidized housing. That relative of my friend.... lived in subsidized housing and was not able to afford to have a home if not subsidized.
They literally voted for a party that, if they had won, would have made them homeless.
I don't think that the PPC won a single district (giving them no seats in government); much to their benefit and their disappointment.
Schools really need to teach critical thinking.
No, no, they don't mean me! They mean all the people that don't deserve it!
I supported the ACA (though would’ve preferred a public option), but the one time I actually needed to use it, was for my Dad when his private insurance from his job kicked him off after retirement, the rates and coverage seemed bad, like it was just such a hassle with no great benefits. It’s only when I realized my Dad could still get Tricare that I switched over to that and that was a million times better (even more reason for govt-funded healthcare). I have no idea why my Dad hadn’t been using it the whole time either, he probably wasted tens of thousands of dollars getting private insurance. I still think ACA is a step in the right direction, BUT public option still needs to happen, Fuck Joe Lieberman for blocking that.
The ACA is good when you actually reach out to a patient care "assister" for support. You can get rates WAY lower than advertised if you work with someone who can help navigate it. I think the program is actually tremendous, but it's been made intentionally cumbersome and difficult to use by the folks trying to kill it. I've used it twice while out of work back in 2016 and again over the pandemic and had completely free plans that covered my "tier 3" prescriptions and specialist (rheumatology) appointments.
It’s only when I realized my Dad could still get Tricare that I switched over to that and that was a million times better (even more reason for govt-funded healthcare).
One of the biggest flaws of the ACA is how it's engineered to be worse than employee sponsored care. Can't actually just open up Medicare For All or you'll make the private insurance system sad.
I don't need no Obummercare, I'm covered by the Affordable Care Act!
You can mathematically group the people in your life in such a way so that half of the people you know are stupider than the other half.
I swear to fuckin' god, man, politics make it real easy to tell who goes in which half. It's not a perfect method, but it works at least 85% of the goddamned time.
Cool meme, but surely you realize that using a system and being against the system are not in conflict.
Then again if they like the system and think it shouldn't be dismantled and still vote for someone who wants to dismantle, that's dumb stupid.
Not sure how you can apply that principle here. If people don't want insurance at all, we get it, but this is all about people who could not get insurance before and now are paying for this 100% optional thing.
Of course they could be in favor of NHS or an equivalent. That's certainly possible. But I think you were not going that direction with your logic.
Th ACA screwed me over pretty badly. Granted my situation wasn't the target of the act (I had non-employer private insurance, and the price more than tripled due to ACA requirements).
I don't like trump at all, but I agree with scrapping this plan and creating something better.
Ah, something better that you ... checks notes ... didn't bother to describe.
I can think of an improvement: national health care. Is that what you mean? ... Certainly Trump doesn't want that, but what about you?
Well I’m glad you’re able to make it about yourself and not consider the needs of others. You’d make a great republican.
In Kansas it's a hot issue to expand ACA benefits and has widely popular support. Yet we for some reason keep on voting in Republicans whose major issues are just removing tax brackets.
Why didn’t the republican do the thing in my best interest?? shockedpikachu.jpg
They think ACA is the cause of our healthcare issues not a terrible attempt to fix it
Reminds me of all my union brothers who vote for anti union conservatives
What is an obamacare?
I know Steve!
Voting for a candidate with the expectation to stop needing a social benefit is definitely how someone with minimum political knowledge will vote.
The amount of people I see being payed minimum wage but dont want a living wage is insane. I don't get it
Lots of people working the service sector are trained to hate one another. The assumption is always that the other guy isn't pulling their weight, never that the establishment is understaffed or the staff undertrained and overworked.
Same vibe as:
"I won't work overtime because I end up losing money on taxes"
That's not how tax brackets work!
That's not how tax brackets should work. But sadly for last year's state tax I came across it. [Example numbers] Previously I had 24,200 annual salary but zero tax as it was below 25,000. Even though personal deductions are 10,000, below 25 was considered too low to tax. This year, due to a mistake from employers I was paid for two weeks retroactively, now I have 25,300. Instead of taxing 300 above 25,000 the tax was for 15,300 after deduction. So I had to pay taxes which decreased the money below 25,000 which should not happen if income below 25,000 pays no tax.
And considering there might be things like not qualifying for financial assistance and other things when you cross 25,000 (again example numbers), the actual benefit of making slightly below that, is higher than making slightly above that..
So the system is putting a resistance to overcome poverty. Either you start making double of what you are making, or stay on your lane. Because trying to improve your situation by only a little is harmful.
No. You showed one possible edge case, not a general rule.
I know it's an edge case. But the edge case of having to pay more on taxes on increasing income existing for incomes close to poverty line seems counterproductive, doesn't it?
Work has an economic cost to it. The net present value of work is not equal to the wage.
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