Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "Patients Before Profits | Bernie Sanders" video.

Harry Mann Jr You really don't tire of pretending that taxes are the only expense in the world, do you? Okay, I will use simple round numbers for demonstration purposes. Let's take someone who makes $50,000/year. That person currently pays $5000/year in taxes, and $4000/year in health care costs. That person would have $41,000 after those two expenses. Now, let's say that taxes go up $1000 (it would actually be $840, but again, I am just using round numbers, so the point is even stronger in real life). That means $6000/year in taxes and no out of pocket medical expenses, leaving that person with $44,000. $44,000>$41,000, even with higher taxes.
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@raymonddeflaviis2306 You do understand that there are lots of different countries in the Middle East, right? And that Afghanistan is in Central Asia, not the Middle East? 9/11 isn't an excuse to attack anyone, anywhere, for any reason just so long as you say the magic terror word.
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@raymonddeflaviis2306 I have been to Germany, and I don't remember seeing any Hitler statues or Rommelstrasse, despite being in the province which the Nazis originally used as its base of power. That doesn't mean that they forgot their history, it means that they know who to honor and, perhaps more importantly, who not to.
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@vashtanerata1799 Nothing would surprise me. However, I think that a lot of those who act that way are Yang's true base who agree with his philosophy: libertarians. Good luck dealing with those people who believe the same thing on Wednesday that they did on Monday regardless of what happened on Tuesday. In another thread, someone said that he would do the most good running as a Republican to try to pull them in a different direction. Cody Johnston of Some More News made the same argument about Biden, saying that a 1970s Republican is better than this variety.
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@raymonddeflaviis2306 Did you just acknowledge your own age? Again, Taliban were not the Middle East. And I must say that I appreciate the irony that people like you can't seem to understand the difference between a monument to traitors and terrorists and buildings that people no longer wanted to be funded and maintained by the general public and buildings that were thousands of years old whose destruction was condemned internationally, including the American Left, while the Bush Administration was originally trying to get the Taliban to work with it. As someone who went to a war that was based on what turned out to be false claims of weapons of mass destruction and connections to 9/11, I for one resent the ridiculous claims that one had anything to do with the other. Oh, just one more thing. Here are what actual American heroes who kept this country together had to say about the Robert E. Lee statue at Gettysburg, as well as the traitor himself: https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/the-lee-controversy-of-1903/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/robert-e-lee-opposed-confederate-monuments
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@raymonddeflaviis2306 Probably because, unlike say, Jefferson Davis, Lee recanted his treason. If you don't think that Confederates are traitors, then the word has no meaning.
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@raymonddeflaviis2306 For someone who claims to understand history, you are the one defending the Confederates. What's next, are you going to say that they didn't really fight for slavery, even though their Vice President referred to slavery as the "cornerstone" of the Confederacy, and every state document of secession either mentioned slavery in the first paragraph if not the first sentence: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/cornerstone-speech https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/caa_missec.asp https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_geosec.asp https://www.civildiscourse-historyblog.com/blog/2018/7/1/secession-documents-Texas And I am not a millennial, I am Generation X.
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@raymonddeflaviis2306 Ethnoc History. Interesting way to peddle what you are selling in defending those whose stated goal was to destroy a country that you claim to love. I, for one, am proud of the fact that my great-great-grandfather fought in the side of America rather than slavery and oppression. And if you notice, I haven't used the word progressive, because it has been used to represent so many vastly different things as to have historical meaning. Quite frankly, I care a lot more about what you are actually proposing. The only time that progressive can serve as a truly accurate descriptor is when describing economic impact of things like taxes.
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@raymonddeflaviis2306 Every soldier ever says things like that. It wasn't rank and file soldiers who decided to secede, and those people who did make the decision clearly did so because they wanted to defend the peculiar institution. To pretend otherwise is to ignore the history that you claim to defend. The KKK was founded by disgruntled Confederates, and Confederate imagery has been used time and time again during resistance to civil rights. Maybe I'll get off my high horse when you stop defending the opposition force that killed more Americans than any other.
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@raymonddeflaviis2306 Keep talking. You make your side look worse and worse with every post. Now, you are defending the Klan.
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@vashtanerata1799 I don't understand when people say it, either. If his heart were truly in the right place, he wouldn't keep lying about what he wants to do.
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@raymonddeflaviis2306 How do you define freedom? If you go back far enough, all property is stolen, so why is that the one thing that those with a libertarian streak seem to care about above all others?
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@raymonddeflaviis2306 I said "libertarian streak," which in this case is emphasizing property when talking about freedom without ever saying what it means to those saying it.
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