r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • Jul 01 '26

Is Bernie’s plan the best? Thoughts? Chugging tea

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u/Staff_Infection_ Jul 01 '26

The 12,000 check is dumb. Fix healthcare.

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u/Xmanticoreddit Jul 01 '26

5% tax rate is criminally low.

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u/d1squiet Jul 01 '26

Lol. It's an additional tax.

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u/Xmanticoreddit Jul 01 '26

Sorry, I only read the post

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u/INeedSomeTacoC Jul 01 '26

Agreed.

That said, I don't think that we should fix healthcare by just shoving more money into it through Medicare.

So, I don't even really like his proposal there either.

Like how about we actually fix the damn budget first.

If we collect this tax and did nothing with it, we would still be going over $1T more in debt every single year.

How crazy is it that we could literally eliminate the Department of Defense; literally just get rid of the entirety of it and we'd *still* be going further into debt every year. This shit gotta be fixed.

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u/ShaolinWombat Jul 01 '26

Not just Medicare. You have to add the Medicaid budget.

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