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Yeah but if you don’t balance it against the risk factors you blow out your pool... similar to why taxation wouldn’t be sustainable, you’d end up with a signifi
by luxuryballs 7y ago
Yeah but if you don’t balance it against the risk factors you blow out your pool... similar to why taxation wouldn’t be sustainable, you’d end up with a significant portion of the population eating the pool without contributing, and a very small minority being forced to cover them, effectively farming “consumer humans” and thus an ever growing tax rate.
- jnty 7y agoDoes the evidence from countries with tax-funded healthcare and social care bear this out? Are you assuming that everyone will eventually have a Japan-style ageing population timebomb?
- zaptheimpaler 7y agoSomehow this system works for 50+ other countries in the world, but when it comes to the US its only discussed in hypotheticals.. completely insane. Somehow the others already have a functioning system without a tax rate of 100%...