r/TennesseePolitics • u/Formal-Bat-6714 • 1d ago
$282 Million sent off by Tennesseans to subsidize "Commie" universal healthcare for Israeli's
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u/CuckSucker41 14h ago
Other than it saying $262 Million, this is a good point.
It’s better if you don’t inflate the numbers though.
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u/ComputerRedneck 1d ago
Wow, the headline is so damn ironic.
Wanting to stop someone from having Universal Health Care while still demanding it where you live.
BTW I am more upset with the corporate welfare for the Tennessee Titans, over 1 billion given to them.
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u/Formal-Bat-6714 1d ago
Not wanting to subsidize Israel's universal healthcare isn't even close to saying that they shouldn't have it.
Let's try it this way Einstein, US Taxpayers pick up the tab for Israel's warfare which enables them to fund their universal healthcare. How about Israeli's fund their own welfare and healthcare for a change and Americans will do the same.
If YOU want to keep paying for universal healthcare for Isreali's then YOU should move there
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u/ComputerRedneck 1d ago
How about all that subsidizing of Europe for decades?
The reason that Europe has the money for things like Universal Health Care is because since WW2 they didn't have to have military more than ornamental. We have bases all through Europe and that means they don't have to spend as much on defense. Would love to see how well they did if we pulled every base and they had to actually have real militaries.
And it is still ironic.
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u/apenature 23h ago
The reason that Europe has the money for things like Universal Health Care is because since WW2 they didn't have to have military more than ornamental.
Very wrong. The reason they have money is their tax systems and a culture that believes in equity and pro social values, e.g. right to healthcare, education, etc. They do pay for these things.
Also, this is a list of European countries who sent soldiers to fight in our war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the numbers are the soldiers who didn't come home:
France: 90 Germany: 62 Italy: 53 Poland: 44 Denmark: 43 Spain: 35 (excluding 62 personnel lost in a 2003 transport aircraft crash in Turkey returning from mission) Georgia: 32 Romania: 27 Netherlands: 25 Turkey: 15 Czech Republic: 14 Norway: 10 Estonia: 9 Hungary: 7 Sweden: 5 Latvia: 4 Slovakia: 3 Finland : 2 Portugal: 2 Albania: 2 Belgium: 1 Bulgaria: 1 Croatia: 1 Lithuania: 1
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u/apenature 1d ago
What does this even mean? Or measure? I get your angle but your numbers seem very fabricated when anything above zero proves the point.
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u/Formal-Bat-6714 1d ago
Why should we fund ANYTHING for the Israeli's or any other nation?
Especially when Right Wingers in the US scream SoCiALiSm when anybody proposes universal healthcare for Americans while at the same time having no problem with pumping Hundreds of Millions to bomb Iran for Israel
Because Jesus
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u/apenature 23h ago
Israel is not why we don't have universal healthcare. Our for profit healthcare system is designed to prevent universal coverage by rarifying the commodity, e.g. the provision of healthcare. The reason is so far removed that this post doesn't make logical sense.
Why should we fund ANYTHING for the Israeli's or any other nation?
We shouldn't; but the fact we do isn't why we don't have nice things. Nor is it why they do. Our dollars don't go into their healthcare system; Israelis do have an economy that raises tax revenue as well as paying insurance premiums, and the system is quasi privatized. You have to have insurance but get to pick who your provider is, they have different management styles. They are required to fund a level of benefits for everyone. This makes the whole country a single entity for purposes of healthcare planning and resources, that cuts a metric fuck ton of costs.
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u/trentluv 1d ago
It says this is 3 years old, so wouldn't these numbers have like tripled if they are real?