I'd invite you to take an in-depth look at the often heralded and treated like a saint that is called the NHS. It is a government run version of a healthcare system, and it's bad, very bad. Sure it is free at the point of use, it is not free at all though as it costs a lot of money. But more importantly, it is run like a government, it is bad with very long waiting times even to just see a general physician, let alone get a procedure done. The system is very inefficient, the infrastructure is old and dirty. There is no pride in it. We have to go self funding if you would rather not wait years, and thus you create a two tier system instantly.
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You conveniently forget to mention that it was privatised by Labour
They privatised more parts of the NHS than any other party ever before or after with their private finance initiative deals. But it is always tit-for-tat in British politics, and then when the other party is in charge, they never undo what the other party did. Just all hot air and pretends for the public. No real actual chance, regardless of whom you support.
C'mon, I assume you know economics better than that and know economies don't turn on a dime. We can argue if Biden should have done his COVID response, but inflation was likely inevitable setup by Trumps COVID response (which, tbf, I'm not sure he could have done much different given the situation) [1]. You can't dump that much money into the economy and then not end up with inflation at some point. I think the Fed was a little slow to act as supply chains came back online, but did eventually act decisively causing inflation to fall back as quickly as it went up.
And people are worried about inflation going back up because it's been shown time and again that tariffs increase inflation.
We've veered pretty far away from Macs
[1] https://www.crfb.org/papers/trump-and-biden-national-debt
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Wait ... so Musk wants you to pay him and not the other way around to use S***ter?
You got all worked up just because X is a RW MAGA Social Site. Which is absolutely true, just like Truth Social. I mean geez thats the truth and typical MAGA, anger just pops right out easily.
But it didn't fall, only the rate of the increase slowed, there's a large difference in that and it definitely didn't drop as fast as it wen't up.C'mon, I assume you know economics better than that and know economies don't turn on a dime. We can argue if Biden should have done his COVID response, but inflation was likely inevitable setup by Trumps COVID response (which, tbf, I'm not sure he could have done much different given the situation) [1]. You can't dump that much money into the economy and then not end up with inflation at some point. I think the Fed was a little slow to act as supply chains came back online, but did eventually act decisively causing inflation to fall back as quickly as it went up.
And people are worried about inflation going back up because it's been shown time and again that tariffs increase inflation.
We've veered pretty far away from Macs
[1] https://www.crfb.org/papers/trump-and-biden-national-debt
Biden and the rest of the uniparty dumped trillions into the economy unnecessarily, Trump fell into their trap also. All the ridiculous, over the top spending is just ruinous, it is devastating, and it's going to have repercussions for decades when it comes to the prices of homes. Did you know in just a few years the average age of the first time home buyer in the US has gone from 28 to 38? All these trillion dollar boondoggles like "Inflation Reduction Act", which is the biggest lie of a name since the "Affordable Care Act" will have permanent impacts.
I don't support tariffs, they're a tax on the people. The only way I support tariffs is if they are used IN PLACE of other taxes, which is how the nation was funded for a very long time.
I'm happy to pay to support a free speech platform.
Twitter has been great ever since Musk bought it and removed the censorship!
Twitter has been great ever since Musk bought it and removed the censorship!
Who says I got worked up exactly? lol You are just stating a bunch of false information. Who hates Making America Great exactly? Libs such as yourself. Wokism has been a detriment to our country. Wake up.
About 30% of them never will. No matter what, they will never ever wake up. But the good news for them is that they will still be able to enjoy the Golden Age of America with us.. If they let themselves.
Inflation IS the rate of increase. And it did fall as fast as it went up [1]. It took some time, but wage growth has also caught up with the inflation from the past few years [2]. If you want prices to reverse then you're looking at deflation and negative growth. Not even Trump wants that because it will make him look bad when people start losing their jobs en masse. Someone must have let him in on the facts since he recently walked back bringing prices down.
The problem with moving to tariffs in place of income taxes is tariffs end up raising the price of goods which is regressive. People who make less money end up paying a larger percentage of their pay to buy things. So lowering income taxes and raising tariffs to fund the federal government is great for the rich and bad for the poor.
It's funny you complain about ruinous spending when Trump in his last term way outspent Biden. In general, neither party has been fiscally responsible since Clinton. So if you voted for Trump thinking he's going to curtail spending, history would show otherwise.
I'm not sure why I bother since it's the internet and you'll probably just parrot back some Trump talking points.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/273418/unadjusted-monthly-inflation-rate-in-the-us/
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-inflation-us/
You’re not understanding what I’m saying when I talk about the rate of increase slowing, but I’m visiting family right now and I don’t wanna go banker on you and explain this stuff today. Suffice it to say, you’re very, very, wrong.
If you’ve read my posts and come to the conclusion I’m this big Trump guy, then you’re not paying attention to my comments. Yes, I voted for Trump, the LP candidate was basically a leftist, and Kamala Harris was Kamala Harris. I do not expect spending to stop, I do however expect wars to end, criminals to go to jail and stay in jail, to have a border again and substantial economic growth (3-4%) to occur. Both parties suck, the health of the country is secondary. If they gave a damn, the debt wouldn’t be screaming towards 40 trillion.
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You are 100% correct on Clinton being the last President that was fiscally responsible, but he also had the Gingrich House holding his feet to the fire.
If you’ve read my posts and come to the conclusion I’m this big Trump guy, then you’re not paying attention to my comments. Yes, I voted for Trump, the LP candidate was basically a leftist, and Kamala Harris was Kamala Harris. I do not expect spending to stop, I do however expect wars to end, criminals to go to jail and stay in jail, to have a border again and substantial economic growth (3-4%) to occur. Both parties suck, the health of the country is secondary. If they gave a damn, the debt wouldn’t be screaming towards 40 trillion.
The US Is Now on Track for a $3.5 Trillion Deficit in 2025 | Mises Institute
With the two-month total at over $620 billion, the year-end total is likely to be over $3.5 trillion by the end of the year. That would make the next annual
You are 100% correct on Clinton being the last President that was fiscally responsible, but he also had the Gingrich House holding his feet to the fire.
I would much rather be lectured to by someone who believes truthfully that Taxation is Theft than someone who lectures me about some climate change hoax or how they should get "free" health care which really costs other people massive amounts of money. Too many people don't realize how hard we have to work to pay for their "free" stuff. Laziness is not Need.
The NHS has been covertly privatised in many aspects. The NHS are forced to use private providers for numerous procedures and surgeries, even maintaining the grounds and cutting lawns at crazy prices. The NHS pays top dollar for services they could do more cost-effectively themselves. But a condition of them receiving extra money is they spend much of it with the private sector. Often, private health providers send patients back to the NHS to receive the treatment the NHS initially was forced to send private. They do this still invoicing the NHS for their time and expecting the NHS to provide the transportation cost-free.
This is effectively a lucrative form of corporate welfare that takes piles and piles of public money, and stashes it into the bank accounts of the private sector. Politicians often have a vested interest in private healthcare providers, but they'll claim they don't know it because their investments are pooled together by some wealth management company on their behalf.
In addition, the last Labour government decided to privatise investment and now the NHS is paying the price in form of staggering debts and interest payments that just go on and on and on. The terms were horrible for the NHS/taxpayer, and so investors were fighting among themselves to be allowed to participate in the funding.
So in my view, government running things badly is a lot more nefarious than just the old tropes of government running everything badly. Our politicians in the West have decided to adapt to the lifestyle of the third world despots we used to lecture against due to lack of democracy and ramptant corruption.
The private sector are often as bad, or worse, than the public sector. Just look at energy companies, water companies, train companies, etc. who have already carved out nice little regional monopolies and engage in ruthless price gouging.
Interesting how many of you who are paying $80/month for a TV subscription or $15/month +$4/month to Amazon to get rid of ads or $5/day or more for "super chats" to get the attention of some minor podcaster, or $8/month for Premium Rumble, or $$$$ for extra lives, etc. in your games, or buy a $6 Starbucks every working day ($1500/year)......complain when those of us who don't do those things want an ad free experience on X. I only follow maybe 30-40 accounts of people who provide links to intelligent, perceptive, and current writings, books, documentaries that I would otherwise not know about. I never look at the "for you" tab since I hate being manipulated, e.g., Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, and all advertising supported sites. I only want to see content from trusted people who provide material that is well-written, current, and relevant...without ANY ads. Absolutely worth it to me.
I am a Trump and Musk hater and a liberal (but not an extremist, except to people who think anyone liberal is an extremist), and I also feel much much better since I stopped using X.
I don't consider comments sections to be social media. But yes, that goes without saying.
Wait till Apple resumes advertising on X, paving the way for other brands to do likewise. 😏
Absolutely. It’s crazy how people in the UK are so resistant to change to the NHS. All of that is going on. Ans the same with the other privatized services, the regulators don’t seem to have the teeth required to deal with the parties. Trains are expensive and getting more expensive, whilst service declines. Water is going up by 20% next year and yet lots of leakage and lots of big payouts.
Now I’m not a fan of taking public ownership either, I want government to govern not manage. But the quality of people you attract with the low salaries is either those who have no clue, or those who never have to work a day in their lives neither feel representative.
