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> streamline healthcare to provide cheap, basic services to every citizen Already covered that. We can pay for healthcare for all citizens, but it will mean e
by Creationer 7y ago
> streamline healthcare to provide cheap, basic services to every citizen
Already covered that.
We can pay for healthcare for all citizens, but it will mean excluding very expensive things like heart surgery, cancer treatment, joint replacements. We will probably need to be much more forward on euthanasia for the old, to save resources.
We can provide free higher education, but its going to mean no student housing, no athletics programs and restricting college to the top 20% of the cohort academically.
Why should we have to tax the current worker population in order to pay for old people to do nothing? The current retirement system is a flawed ponzi scheme. People have continued to work until death or impairment in the past - why should retirement be considered a human right now?
Cut payroll taxes and income taxes, and the elderly can happily work 1-2 days per week, and businesses will be happy to have them. Store clerks, fast food workers, cleaners, child carers. These jobs can be done well by the elderly, and work keeps the brain active and healthy.
What if I want to work part-time throughout my life, and never retire? Shouldn't I have the ability as an individual to decide how and if I want to retire?
- AlexandrB 7y agoWhat is it like to live in a country where things that every other developed country seems to be able to afford (like public health care) are impossible without invoking “euthanasia for the old”?