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And breaking a window stimulates the economy because it means the window-fitter gets more business.

• Groxx 16y ago
  I don't see how it's possible to have a cost of less than $50-100/month for healthcare. And all forms of cost have to be accounted for - direct + taxes being by far the easiest to measure, but when people start claiming that it "costs nothing" they're ignoring the bigger picture of the economy as a whole. Especially when $60k/year is your bottom margin - that includes a lot of people => a lot of drain on the rest if it doesn't come from them. Nice reply, btw :)
  • jbri 16y ago
    The issue, I think, is that government spending is really in a different boat to private expenditure when it comes to the effect on the economy. Trying to model it as "you spend $X in taxes to pay for that healthcare" is a drastic oversimplification. If you instead look at all government spending as economic stimulus, and all taxation as a factor in inflation management, you get quite a different picture.