Why are The News Media Moderators So Tepid With Their Questions?

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  1. federalist50

    federalist50 Well-Known Member

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    No follow up when the candidates dodge questions and nothing but softballs! The questions they should be asking, particularly with Sanders and Warren, is how do they plan on paying for the green new deal, free college and so called medicare for all?

    The estimates I've seen suggest those programs would cost an estimated additional $12 Trillion to $13 Trillion a year. The claim that only the wealthy will pay the necessary taxes is fools gold! The top 25% of wage earners already pay 90% of all taxes collected! Some have suggested that they would have to double the taxes on the 53% of Americans who pay taxes!

    You can only squeeze the wealthy so much. Macron in France discovered this fact the hard way when he implemented a top tax rate of 90% and their millionaires started leaving the country in droves, taking their taxes with them!

    Now, in regards to the new green deal, which promises to lower average temperatures by 1/2 percent in 50 years, the questions that should be asked is how will workers get to work, without cars, or buses. How does food and other necessities get to market? What happens to the tax base when millions of Americans lose their jobs?
     
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    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Something is wrong with your estimates. The number you are quoting is likely 12-13 Trillion over 10 years.

    The reality is that socialized medicine should cost far less - if done properly. We could adopt one of the better European systems - straight across the board - one with private on the side. All these systems provide universal healthcare - and they do it for roughly half the cost of what we currently pay.

    In 2017 we paid 3.5 Trillion in healthcare - half by the Gov't and half by the citizen. That is almost as much as the entire federal revenue for the year .. 3.6 Trillion.

    Socialized medicine in these other nations is half the cost = 1.75 Trillion in savings on the table. We should be able to do better than that 1) due to economies of scale 2) these other systems are bloated inefficient bureaucratic nightmares.
     
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    It is all a show. The lefty media is in the tank for democrats.
     
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    Why are The News Media Moderators So Tepid With Their Questions?
    The PR department of a large corporation never asks real tough questions of the CEO.
     
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    As in Agenda 21 the plan is not to eliminate all cars and buses and trucks. It is to eliminate individual ownership of such. The idea is for everyone to live in high rise cities within a bike ride away for almost everything they need -- need as what is approved as such by the government. There will still be a few government run buses. The government will also maintain trucks to bring the foodstuffs from the government run farms that will hopefully be closer to the new cities like in the suburbs where individuals used to live.

    This has been quietly and slowly coming about for some time now. For example many municipalities are going big on bike paths and extensive walking trails, and many local, county and state zoning is decreasing allowable lot sizes for houses and prohibiting further building on large-sized lots or acreages.

    Christiana Figueres, once the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism. “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said. Check out the UN's Agenda 21.
     

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