Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Rand Paul Faceplants Going After Bernie Sanders" video.

Well, I won't mind installing a lot of their programs at the local level. You have to consider that those nations are smaller then most of our states.
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@thepolishlatinofromphilly9709 , so, smaller population means less diversity. Read the book "Debunking Utopia" about it.
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@CutThroatJuggalo , it does. Smaller size means less diversity. Because various states have different culture they have different levels of health. For example, there is a correlation between health and education. MA is one of the healthiest states in the US. They are also one of the most educated. Why? Well their culture lives in a state with MIT, Harvard, Boston College and other major 4 year programs. So their society values education more. Now consider NV, which is ranked low in health and education. Why? Because where is the incentive to become educated in that state when you can make $80,000 a year parking cars or serving drinks? Or make 6 figures working in the mines in Winnemucca. That is why there are only 2 four year universities there. At the state and local these programs can be developed to tailor to those cultures. Also, sure they pay less, but those nations also receive less. For example, we offer more CT scans and MRIs per capita.
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@CutThroatJuggalo , what is an proper education to you? Learning and memorizing things, or actually producing? Also, our university programs are way better overall. Also, universal healthcare systems don't cover everything which is why people die waiting for "elective" care like certain forms of heart surgery.
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The issue is that Bernie wants a Venezuela model. The nordic nations have more of a flat tax compared to the US. For example, if we followed the tax bracket of Denmark the highest bracket will be around $50,000 to $60,000 a year. Our highest tax bracket is around $400,000 and Bernie only wants to raise those taxes.
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@mathunit1 , so facts don't sit well with you?
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@thepolishlatinofromphilly9709 , what was wrong with what I said?
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@franklance9167 , most likely over winter break. But after seeing how immature he was towards Tim Pool I doubt I should waste my time.
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@thepolishlatinofromphilly9709 https://money.cnn.com/interactive/pf/taxes/top-income-tax-rate/?iid=EL
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Ultimum Draco , what is wrong with what is in that article?
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@jamesirwin7677 , the working class hates Bernie. Besides, he is lying all around. Nordic nations have flat tax compared to the US. For example, the US highest tax bracket is at $400,000. Denmark's is at around $55,000. They have a higher sales tax as well. Bernie only picks chooses what he likes out of the Nordic nations and ignores the rest. He knows that saying he will raise taxes on the majority of the nation won't sit well.
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@ninjalokust , what was wrong with what I said? What I said was 100% factual. It is clear that when I say something factual that goes against your narrative you can't come up with any counter argument.
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@ninjalokust ok. So how am i not fact based?
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@user-ue5yw6zb9k , compared to the US Denmark has a flat tax. Their highest tax bracket is at around $55,000. You are looking at percent, now look at how has to pay that rate. That bit of information would have taken you 2 minutes to look up.
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, except there are cities in Vermont that don't allow McDonalds.
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Monjer Choudhury , and money is tied to education. Also, as I said, people in NV make plenty of money as well. So you have that. I have taken graduate level economic courses. You apparently haven't.
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@thepolishlatinofromphilly9709 , you are distributing funds.
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@thomasdendtler4077 , that number has been challenged many times.
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Monjer Choudhury ,also, a lot of economists argue for more local control over central control.
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@thomasdendtler4077 no. Challenged as the topic is debatable
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Monjer Choudhury , there are many factors beyond the min. wage and labor supply. A lower min. wage will, arguably, lower the supply of labor. One reason why we don't see much of a change in unemployment when the min. wage goes up is because of labor to labor substitution where there is a greater desire to re-enter the work force as the min. wage goes up. For example,a retired person will be willing to work again displacing low skilled workers.
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Monjer Choudhury , but again, the idea of local vs federal government is an issue economists will argue on. If you actually studied economics you will know that.
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Monjer Choudhury , I don't mind, care to link me the paper? Also, there is a flaw there. You are assuming that if the min. wage goes down then all wages will go down. That is not the case as most people already earn more then the minimum. Also, most min. wage workers are not full time and do not depend on that job to pay the bill. As a whole there is a lot more to it.
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@citigroup64 , which people? Locally? Yes, I support that. One reason why I support local governments is that the people I am around can do what they want and the people you are around can do what you want.
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@nineten9011 , in other nations people die because they are denied healthcare as well.
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Monjer Choudhury , if you give me the title I have access to almost all peer reviewed work.
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@damirbecirbegovic3374 , yes they do. In Canada they do. In Australia up to 7000 people die a year waiting for "elective" surgery. As for Rand Paul, he is talking about charities, not government force. I know a lot about healthcare in general, at least compared to Bernie supporters. Universal healthcare has many flaws to it.
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@damirbecirbegovic3374 , you know, my doctor never had cancer. Does that mean he can't help cancer patients?
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@jacobkobald1753 , why do we have enough doctors? Maybe because they are pay well. Doctors are not going to be willing to take a 40% pay cut. The 40,000 stat has been challenged many times. For one, people die in all nations due to lack of access. Amenable mortality is an issue every nation faces. So how do you know that 40,000 is high? Next, it is hard to determine if they really die due to lack of care or simply because they are sick to begin with. As Prof. Katherine Baicker said, being in bad health is associated with being poor. So the question becomes do they die due to lack of access or due to bad health? As pointed out in the book "Being Mortal", people seek out modern medicine to live another 5 or 10 years but will only live another 5 or 10 months. So if you give those 40,000 healthcare and they die 5 months later, what was the success? Also, Prof. Richard Kronick wrote in his paper entitled "Health Insurance Coverage and Mortality Revisited" The following "The Institute of Medicine's estimate that lack of insurance leads to 18,000 excess deaths each year is almost certainly incorrect. It is not possible to draw firm causal inferences from the results of observational analyses, but there is little evidence to suggest that extending insurance coverage to all adults would have a large effect on the number of deaths in the United States."
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@jacobkobald1753 , uh, no. Some forms of heart and neurosurgery are considered elective. Read the paper entitled "True versus reported waiting times for valvular aortic stenosis surgery."
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jerry flounders , true. Also sales tax on cars are high. Funny how far leftists leave those things out.
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jerry flounders , I will have no problem respecting far leftists if they were actually honest. They aren't. They pull the things Kyle does. And when you call them out for it they claim you are a troll or corrupt or voting against your own interest.
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@Korean_Autist_AbsoluteMF , you do know you can have two completely different cultures of the same race? I doubt you knew that because a racist like you can't think like that.
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@mckenzie.latham91 , I bet a lot of people in MA went to those universities. You can push all the money you want into a system, if the people don't buy into it then it doesn't matter. Again, in NV where is the incentive to become educated when you can earn $80,000 a year parking cars? As for other nations being healthier, that is due to healthier lifestyles. As pointed out in the study entitled "The Oregon Experiment — Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes" Even with access to healthcare their physical health did not improve suggesting poor life style choices "This randomized, controlled study showed that Medicaid coverage generated no significant improvements in measured physical health outcomes in the first 2 years" Also, we offer more advanced testing compare to other nations. It is not suggesting that we are more weak. It shows we offer more just in case. There are arguments if those testing are necessary, but we still offer them. I have read a lot about this, notice how I offer actual studies and you don't? You have to try harder bud.
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Kyle, as usual, is so wrong here. To start, we are a much larger and diverse nation. Most on the right have no problem establishing some government programs at the state and local level. They just don't want it centralized. Nordic nations are smaller than most of our states. Next, on the corporate tax rates. Sure they may be paying less on paper, but consider all the lawyers and accountants they have to hire to do that. They can use those resources for more productive things. So it becomes a waste. Also, Nordic nations have more of a flat tax compared to the US. If we followed their tax bracket the highest bracket will be around $50,000 to $60,000. In the US our highest bracket is at $400,000, and Bernie wants to raise it even more. So in all Rand is correct, Bernie does not want to follow the Nordic style.
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