[ExI] Single Payer Healthcare

[Jason Resch]

Despite income tax rates varying widely, and going as high as 90% for the
top brackets, the federal government has never been able to bring in more
than about 20% of GDP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser's_law

Jason

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed., 29 Mar. 2017 at 3:16 am, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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>> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
>> Behalf Of *Dylan Distasio
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>> ​The average UK citizen lives to be 81.2 years old and spends  $4003 a
>> year on healthcare, the average USA citizen lives to be 79.3 years old and
>> spends $9451 on healthcare…John K Clark
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>> How do we account for the ongoing drug wars in Chicago and other major US
>> cities?  If a drug gangster shoots another 19 year old drug gangster, does
>> that average in to life expectancy?  Why?  What if a drug gang captures a
>> member of a rival gang, takes him to the parking lot of the local hospital,
>> shoot him, he crawls up to the ER, racks up huge bills.  How does that
>> count?
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>> Alternative: take a group of living 60 yr olds, the kind of people
>> unlikely to perish in these drug wars.  How do those compare between those
>> countries?
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>> Another observation: it is meaningless to compare socialist countries
>> with capitalist countries, because socialist countries can theoretically
>> raise more funds at the federal level than capitalist governments can.  The
>> US government is already very close to the maximum revenue it can generate.
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> How? They can increase the income tax to 90% if they want.
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> Stathis Papaioannou
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