If you’re on here complaining about millionaires, billionaires and trillionaires, I’d recommend you turn off your phone and work harder to improve your own life.
Jealousy won’t solve your problems.
As a Gen Xer, how many times have you started typing a reply to a post, gotten halfway through, and then realized you just don’t care enough to finish it?
With the number of people and businesses leaving the state the hole is going to be way bigger than anything even they are anticipating. It will be all of the above, income tax, raised property taxes, raised sales taxes by every taxing district that is allowed to tax, mileage tax, the governors wet dream comes true.
Gov. Ferguson and Dems raised taxes, raided pensions, swept accounts, drained reserves and will still come up short again. That is not a revenue problem. That is a spending addiction.
For the first time in my life I’m watching my government function as intended: the people want the SAVE Act passed, and the politicians refusing to do so are paying a heavy price.
It’s a beautiful thing to behold.
Voters oppose amnesty. Cornyn ran on it. Rubio doing struggle sessions in India show bad instincts. Everyone is sick of this shit. Stand up for America or get out of the way.
Here’s Mayor Pete announcing the Biden administration’s decision to fight the Jet Blue and Spirit merger so they could protect consumers and ensure low fares. Now the airline doesn’t exist and passengers are stranded across the country.
You are total moron who doesn’t understand anything about the healthcare system.
Let me help you out.
Picture a town with 1 hospital.
A doctor wants to open a clinic across the street.
He has the money.
He has the patients.
He needs one thing first…
Permission from the hospital he’s about to compete with.
That’s not a joke.
It’s called Certificate of Need.
Thirty-five states still do it.
The hospital that’s already there gets to vote on whether the new one exists.
They always vote no.
That’s why your local hospital can charge $4,000 for an MRI that costs $400 in cash at an independent clinic two states away.
There is NO competition because regulations has strangled it.
It gets worse.
The AMA caps how many doctors America trains every year.
On purpose.
They’ve done it since 1997.
We have a shortage they manufactured.
A nurse practitioner who could handle 80% of what a GP does is banned from doing it solo in half the states.
Why? Because doctor lobbies wrote the laws.
Hospitals lobby to block hospitals.
Doctors lobby to block doctors.
You don’t have a market. You have a cartel.
Every wall in this maze was built by someone who profits from you being lost in it.
The fix isn’t complicated.
It’s just illegal in too many places.
1) Kill Certificate of Need.
Let anyone build a hospital. Let surgery centers open across the street from the big systems. Watch prices drop DRAMATICALLY.
2) Uncap residencies and medical schools
3) Let nurse practitioners and pharmacists practice to the full scope of their training in every state. Most of what you go to a doctor for doesn’t need a doctor.
4) Untie insurance from your job and make individual plans fully tax-deductible.
The reason healthcare is a shit show is because there is ZERO competition because it is strangled by regulations and funded by the government.
Everything that is funded by th government goes this way.
Look at college tuition… same route.
The best thing you can do for prices is to pull out the government in every possible area.
Does the Washington State Attorney General NO LONGER represent the best interests of the people?
And instead, the Attorney General only represents the best interests of the Washington State Democrat Party?
And do you think that Washington State has a "representative" state government?
It doesn't feel like the people have any representation.
It feels like the Washington State government is AGAINST the people.
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