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Originally Posted by Rev. 6:5  I'm not a socialist. Just the opposite, I'm a strong conservative. However, universal healthcare is affordable and can be done with sin taxes. |
In the US, sin taxes are already being gobbled up as fast as you can collect them and you are still left with a large deficit each year. In Canada our disfunctional system costs us 11% of our GDP.
A similar system would add 1.5 Trillion to the yearly US deficit.
Personally I would prefer having US style healthcare and not getting taxed to death as I currently do. Not everyone would agree, that is just my preference. I am just trying to point out that the Canadian system is very far from perfect and is very expensive to the tax payer. The saying
"The grass is not always greener on the other side" definitely applies here!