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I find your comment particularly indefensible given the actual facts involved. At the very _bare_ minimum, to pretend to give a fuck about the lives of the Amer
by travmatt 9y ago
I find your comment particularly indefensible given the actual facts involved. At the very _bare_ minimum, to pretend to give a fuck about the lives of the Americans about to lose their health insurance requires a cbo score and more than 1 hour of debate. To pretend that the express tradeoff of the bill isn't American lives in exchange for ~680million in tax cuts for income above 125k/year feels intellectually gross. An honest analysis would simply restate the Republican argument for the bill, that this tax cut was needed now because it will allow for greater tax cuts in the future tax reform bill.
- drdeca 9y agoTo clarify, I was not attempting to argue that the republican healthcare plan is a morally acceptable one (I need to read more about it), just that saying that the goal is killing people is clearly incorrect?
- travmatt 9y agoI don't know how you could ascertain the latter without the former. Especially if you believe, as I do, that healthcare could save lives and the less money means less healthcare. I'm not against conservative ideas - there have been plenty of conservative healthcare reforms in America (Mitt Romney was very successful and was widely praised when he did it), but it'd be an insult to compare this current bill to attempts like his - again, because I see his attempt as one honestly intended to make his constituents lives better and there's no way I can say the same here. Pretending to care about consequences would require more than an hour debate before reshaping the largest industry in America. In my view I can certainly ascribe intent to someone who malevolently callous in their actions, so I'd reword 'the goal is to kill people' to 'are more than happy to kill people to cut their own taxes.'