Cruz tax plan

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2) Obamacare penalties should be abolished. Obamacare is good, but people shouldn't be forced to buy healthcare if they don't want it, or punished by the IRS if they don't have it.

Absolutely not. USA does not have universal healthcare, therefore people who get a chronic NCD that requires ongoing treatment such as cancer will need private health cover, and as there's no way to know in advance whether a person will get cancer or some other expensive health problem in the future, they need to be protected now in the present. The penalties could conceivably be abolished in the future at such time that universal healthcare does exist, however that's not going to happen any time soon.

It looks like the Obamacare benefits the insurance companies more than anything. It is not a single payer healthcare plan that was sold to the American people. It was Obama paying his rich pals in the insurance business.

You're a complete idiot if you actually believe that. The main thing Obamacare did that was of benefit for people was to ensure that insurance companies could not refuse cover. That has two effects: firstly, and most importantly, it means those previously denied cover because they were already sick or "high risk" patients are able to have the same access to healthcare as everyone else. Secondly, as a result of this it means there are now more healthcare consumers in a finite system putting greater pressure on hospitals and consequently making the service worse for everyone else. Both those things are true. But the goal is not to provide a better service for everyone, it's to ensure that everyone has access to an equitable service for expensive life-threatening illnesses.

As for your tax question.



The tax proposal is just about one of the most extremist policies I've seen anywhere. It'll widen the gap between rich and poor, create higher unemployment, higher crime, and for what? So the rich can stay rich.