Money really does grow on trees in a way. The Fed just keeps printing it. anyway..

The Federal government siezes 2 and 1/2 trillion dollars from the people every year and the state sieze another 2 trillion or so.

We only need a couple billion for that fence. Even without the IRS, we'd still have plenty of money for the fence. 

Does this have anything to do with a feared loss of exclusivity at private schools? Do the parents fear that the same rotten kids that they are trying to keep their own children away from would be forced into the private school by government regulation that accompanies the voucher legislation?

around, they will tell you why. People who send there kids to private schools have the largest opposition to the plan. Was the same when I lived elsewhere.

You were saying something about health care vouchers? 

It would mean less money paid out to Medicare and Medicaid for people who knew full well they would get Lung Cancer, emphysema, Chronic Bronchitis, COPD, and especially heart disease.

Banning that shit is a no brainer as Cheney would say. 

It's like letting people drink absinth until they get sick, which they inevitably will, and then having the government sieze people's property to pay for them.

The proportion of health care consumed by twenty-somethings is very small. They are not the ones driving prices higher. The last time I looked it up, uncompensated care for the uninsured of all ages accounted for only about three percent of health care spending. Since healthy young adults consume on average very little health care, a low cost high deductible health insurance plan makes perfect sense for them. Those can be had for less than fifty bucks a month in many states. Insuring the uninsured twenty-somethings would be very cheap. Most of them can afford to do it without government assistance.

Classic Liberals ( libertarian conservatives) Always always always point out the supposed flaws in other countries systems as a reason why we shouldn't change ours. The tactic has no merit however because no one is saying copy anyone else's system. We are saying fix OUR system.

Skewed arguments like 80% of the people that don't have insurance make less than 75 grand a yr aren't even relevant.

--- Truth To Power

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That would only reduce the burden on those companies that spend more than the average on health care. The burden would actually increase for those who pay less than the average now. Unless health care spending is slashed, the total burden on employers and employees to fund universal health care would be no less than what they pay now for health care.

...and slap tariffs on imports like we used to and other emerging countries are doing (while thriving).

Tariffs raise the prices of goods that consumers pay. Those earning the least would be hit the hardest since they spend a disproportionately higher share of their paychecks on goods. Raising tariffs is raising taxes on paycheck to paycheck types.

Many businesses will simply return to the US, and those that don't will provide us with plenty of revenue...

The revenue derived from tariffs on imported goods will be paid by American consumers. Businesses just collect the taxes from their customers and pass them along to the government.

...they'll actually be able to afford the products they manufacture.

Those workers who now manufacture goods for export will lose when the inevitable trade war puts them out of work. You would sacrifice the high paying jobs of those building Caterpillar heavy equipment for export just to bring back a few low paying textile mill jobs. How generous of you.

That was exactly why Henry Ford bumped his average employee salary to $5, double what most competitors offered at the time because he knew much of that money would come right back into his pocket.

Henry Ford actually raised the pay of his workers because his annual employee turnover was about that of a Burger King. He raised the pay to retain skilled workers.

PS---If we don't tax US business than we screw ourselves because tax payers shoulder the burden.

Businesses never shoulder the tax burden. Taxes are just part of the overhead for a business. The overhead is passed along to the consumer in the prices of goods and services. The consumer shoulders the entire burden of taxes levied on businesses.