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"Would you rather pay for taxes or healthcare?" Sounds like a no brainer to me 🤷♂️
33% are retarded.
I thought it was free
My taxes went down when I moved from the US to New Zealand and I got the free healthcare and education. Pretty good deal. All you have to do is stop supporting massive military and health insurance industry. You can get both low taxes and health care plus education.
Outsource the military to the US in an alliance you mean.
https://youtu.be/sgspkxfkS4k?si=ugqTWlMLeBBwKQuE
Also to be clear the NZ system spends less per capita from the government budget on health care than is spent in the US. We have a much more effective system without the excessive paperwork of the American system. And yes there’s private hospitals and health insurance here and even pharmaceutical advertising. It’s really not very different from America, it just works a lot better. Lower taxes, better security, more benefits.
This is all true, but NZ like the NHS is a bit too public heavy. The ideal system is a balance between public and private sectors...both complimentary and competing. Thanks for coming to my very literally TED talk: https://youtu.be/jCVmY1iOJQs?si=bnFAnGEzoWKGpkCh
But New Zealand does have a balance between public and private healthcare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_New_Zealand
Not really balance, in the sense that only about 30% of the population is insured, and there is one insurer who has monopoly share of the relatively small market (southern cross). ideal balance would be 50% insured and competitive private providers.
that is exactly the point. you don't need more taxes, you need better resource allocation. most citizens would allocate public funds differently than their govt would. the reason the US is so defense heavy is that it feeds into their fiat military industrial flywheel. ...print money, give it to a foreign govt, they buy your US weapons, rinse and repeat.. Health and Education don't work the same way.
I can see that, by taking a piece from your capital and giving it to everybody else, you can say that everybody has access to free health care and education, even if you can't afford it. It's free because somebody else paid for you (and the state took it's share). In a democracy with "healthy" (surviving) and "educated" (indoctrinated) people, the state raises more treasure through taxes since people produce more. But this way you are removing the "natural selection", the survival instincts, the ingenuity and the community-help from people. People become more and more weak, poor, lonely and dependant from the state. But people are powerful when given the chance. This top down approach is creating a fragile society for the advantage of the state. Bad things need to be let go, even if it is painful. Otherwise prepare for a big crisis.
But the stupid/inefficient thing is to tax *everybody* and then give free healthcare to *everybody*. All incentives to spend money wisely is lost. Only tax the richer folks to support the poorer ones, but no needless circulation of money via tax and handouts to the same ppl.
