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Bernie Sanders Introduces Legislation to Enact a 32-Hour Workweek with No Loss in Pay
(www.sanders.senate.gov)
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I love the way Sanders' legislation always needs to have that little tail on it (with no loss in pay). Like when he was doing M4A, he had to explain that, while taxes go up, they will go up less than the amount you pay to an insurance company.
The "higher taxes but lower overall costs" talking point kind of annoys me, because basically every other highly developed nation (and a number of developing nations) provides better healthcare than the US with lower government expenditure. There's no need to raise taxes specifically for the purpose of transitioning to universal healthcare other than US healthcare companies charging grossly extortionate prices, which the government can make them stop doing, and it'd help public understanding of the situation if this was brought up more.