The GOP tax bill—the amount of money that was given to corporations and the rich would have paid for Medicare for all and healthcare for every man, woman, and child in this country for the next five years. So it’s there. And additionally, we added several hundred billion dollars additionally to our military spending, when the military didn’t even ask for it. They didn’t even want that additional spending, but we lopped it on there—and that could have financed public college tuition for years as well. So we actually have the money for these things.
We actually have the money for these things.
It’s not “ponies and unicorns”
It’s not “pie in the sky”
It’s not “unrealistic”
It’s not “too expensive”
It’s all about who has the courage to change the status quo and realign our priorities
We actually have the money for these things.
The US spends more on healthcare than the UK for less coverage. This isn’t utopian socialism or my usual demands for world peace and a pony. This is a fact. Your public and compulsory schemes cost more than ours and you don’t even get universal healthcare free at the point of delivery. You pay more and get less. This is a bad deal. You could pay less and get more. People mocking the idea and calling it communism or a money sink just can’t count.
AOC is making a broader point though that spending doesn’t matter when your economy is as massive as the US’s economy is and the “household” metaphor for a country’s budget is inaccurate.
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