I'm not following turnout much but Biden is kicking butt in Michigan and 4 years ago Sanders cleaned Hillary's clock there, that suggests Biden will do better than Hillary in swing states.
I posted a video where he literally says he would veto any medicate for all bill. Not sure what your own issue with replying to what Biden said is, but it is pretty tiresome to act as you do. Biden claims he'd veto it to protect the healthcare you already have, to which it can be noted that millions in the Us do not have any healthcare.
I thought he was gonna argue against M4A to protect people who are happy with their current insurance but he launched into the cost instead.
9:40 into this one is the question and answer.
Yeah, he's not being too clear on that, I hope he'll flesh out his opposition better. But I am suspicious he's just playing word games because he's a corporate Democrat in the pocket of the insurance industry. What I dont understand is if M4A would cost 32-35 trillion over 10 years and we're already paying about 3.5 trillion a year for health care now it sounds like we'd cover the uninsured at no extra cost by eliminating the middle man.
I like the fact we'd eliminate any disadvantage American business faces by providing coverage for employees in addition to covering everyone - win win in my book. One of the problems I have with extrapolating M4A from Medicare as it exists now is the program's already subsidized by the market for other people. Non-recipients pay more to help cover costs for older, retired folk and then proponents tout Medicare's success without acknowledging that success is bought by people in the private market.
If it's between Trump and Biden, then Trump is the lesser evil. At least he will have only 4 years left, whereas Biden might potentially get 8 and do far more damage.
I cant see Biden running for re-election or undoing trade deals Trump negotiated and he's not much of a warmonger, so Biden's a relatively safe person for the WH even if his brain is running on fumes. And if he takes Klobuchar as his VP she'd be the fav for 2024... and she's not someone that concerns me.
That 35 trillion number is the one Biden keeps using. Not sure where he got it but even Fox News was using the 32 trillion figure a few months ago. Biden is essentially pushing a Republican talking point to undermine someone actually running on the left.
Does this mean the cost of M4A would be an additional 32-35 trillion on top of what we pay now? I was under the impression the cost of Sanders' program would be in place of current costs.
This is actually one issue where I'm prepared to give Biden a pass. If Jeff Sessions didn't put a stop to legal weed in the states, I highly doubt anyone appointed by Biden will.
Yeah, I dont see Biden reversing course on 'state's rights' when it comes to medical or even recreational pot, but the federal prohibition inhibits the ability of people to supplant the black market with a fully legal market.
Personally, I've actually become less enthusiastic about weed legalization over the last few years. Nobody is making you smoke it. Felony, or heck, even misdemeanor, is too much of a penalty though. Unless you are clearly doing drug trafficking with it, I would make it like a small speeding ticket in terms of severity.
You want to punish 'trafficking'? People need to be able to legally sell pot, anything short of legalization means we still have a drug war and a gateway to prison primarily for poor, black and brown people. If a state legalizes recreational use but still outlaws selling except for 'licensed dealers' while taxing the hell out of it the black market will still exist.
edit: all drugs need to be legalized, cocaine, meth, heroin... These are the prime sources of revenue for the cartels wreaking havoc in Latin America.
