America's F*cked Up Tax System | The Problem With Jon Stewart

Some of America’s biggest industries - including health care and pharma - wouldn’t exist without government subsidies, but what are taxpayers getting in return? We investigated in our Taxes episode in Season 2.
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[@cherylyeazell2469]

Simple breakdown. Normal Americans pay twice for no services at all.

[@danbroadhead72]

And we look down our nose at other countries and say THEIR politicians are corrupt. 😂

[@EMTedroni]

Jon has lots of interesting data, and good points, but his personal blind-spots guarantee that he draws bad conclusions. Take healthcare: The UK has universal healthcare. You're 2.5× more likely to die from the flu in the UK than in the US, once you adjust for population sizes. You're 2× more likely to catch a secondary infection in the hospital. You're 2× more likely to die from said secondary infection. Their average cancer survival rate at 5 years is 18% lower than ours (provided you're not cherry-picking survival rates of particular cancers). Nope. I much prefer our system where you're 1/4 as likely to die in the hospital and ~1/3 as likely to die from the annual flu. Don't even get me started on Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans. I *do* however agree that government takes far too much money only to pay for its own benefit. It's a parasite that has grown far too large.

[@XXLBretzel]

​@@EMTedroniWell one of the reasons you are less likely to die in an american hospital, is that palliative care is not covered a lot of the time. So they send you home to die there. Also the General lower life expectancy and other metrics really dont seem in favor of the american healthcare system. Maybe the specific things compared to the UK are, but in general its not looking good.

[@Schmiduku]

@@EMTedronithose points are valid, but also don’t matter much if you’re in a financial position where you’d rather not go to the hospital or take an ambulance no matter how bad the emergency. I’m not exactly enjoying the benefit of not catching a secondary illness from the hospital if I can’t afford hospital care, am I? If any number of people avoid seeking care in a medical system for its cost, it fundamentally fails as a system. I’d rather live in a system where if I need essential care, I’m not so worried about money that I’m willing to let the problem fester and get worse. Or ration out prescriptions for an emergency supply because I’m still working on my deductible in August and $200 a month in medication is starting to really hurt my bank account. If I’m that worried about dying from the flu in England, I’ll mask up the second flu season rolls around and get the annual vaccine. The overall security of universal healthcare overwhelmingly outweighs any benefits our system provides. Yes, the treatments available here in the US are often among the most excellent in the world, but it’s often less a question of how good it is and more of if you can afford it. Our system is heartless because it’s privatized, and private companies are 100% obligated to choose the financial interests of their shareholders instead of the wellbeing and livelihood of the people they end up preying upon. I hope you continue to enjoy our system, because for a lot of people, it’s not as much of an essential service as it is a luxury that only certain classes of people can comfortably enjoy.

[@themartialartsapproach8786]

​@@EMTedroniwhat insane American would drop $10k to get treated for the flu? True story, a manager I worked with had saved up for a car. Had a bad fever one day, so he went to the hospital for a few hours. Had to start from square one saving for the car again. Almost everybody has a story like this. Mine was a $12k bike accident. No tests, just a student stitched my head and I was shown the door. Took the stitches out myself. Maybe your bias guarantees your take. Maybe mine does, too.

[@soshiryuu8592]

You forgot the part where those companies take that money and give it to the politicians to make sure the system continues to work in their favor

[@MrPaxio]

no, it goes into the price of the oil, which is the reason the gasoline you put in your car isnt twice the price. youre a willing buyer lets be real. nobody is forcing u to eat oil

[@soshiryuu8592]

@MrPaxio I don't believe oil was mentioned at all. In addition, I don't think you understand why gas is so expensive. It's also interesting you assume I use gas and oil.

[@MrPaxio]

@@soshiryuu8592 youre the one who says they take those oil money subsidies to pay off politicians. not how it works. im saying it goes directly back into the oil you pay for. the whole reason theyre called "subsidies". and also, you cannot avoid using gas or oil even if you tried really really hard like every other vegan. unless ure a kanyan farmer making a penny while chewing on your cocaine leaves. even then, ure still using plastic everywhere you go. and plastic is preferable in those 3rd world countries, it stops diseases. and we all know we value human life way more than anything else.

[@Razgar_Voxel]

@@MrPaxio Guess you don't pay attention to the politicians who have been in office for 2 or even 3 decades.

[@MDSmith-bg6ob]

FrFr. And he didn't even get into trying to claim disability. Where the judge doesn't even listen to your doctor. You have to pay a middle man (lawyer) to tell the judge what your doctor said. Before you see one red cent. It's all a racket.

[@frankjohnson2690]

We have been doomed for a long time. Remove lobbyists. Set term limits.

[@Tiwack01]

You're presented with a super neat graphic explaining the problem and this is your response, good grief, no wonder you guys are fucked. Campaign finance reform, election reform and age limits is what's needed. FPTP-voting and superPACs are the tools of these big corporations to hold you over a barrel, term limits solves nothing and you'll never get rid of lobbyists as anyone shouting at your representatives on their way to work is effectively acting as a lobbyist.

[@WhatsIQ]

Remove government*

[@deusexmachina5769]

​@@WhatsIQ That only works if we also abolish capitalism. Since you use a libertarian/anarcho-capitalist flag in the background of your pfp, your idea of getting rid of government wouldn't work. Sure, we can do anarcho-syndicalism or anrcho-communism, but anarcho-capitalism is stupid.

[@WhatsIQ]

@@deusexmachina5769 anarcho-capitalism is literally the only thing that even could happen if you get rid of government. It's impossible for any system other than capitalism to exist when government doesn't exist

[@deusexmachina5769]

@@WhatsIQ no it's not. The system depends on how that system is organized. If you just were to take away the government without any other objectives then you'd be correct, but syndicalism uses direct democracy and the syndicates to ensure the collective ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, while communism has the communes and communal ownership over those things. Anarcho-capitalism would just devolve into feudalism. There's a reason why every country is regulating their capitalist economy.

[@mayasiva2717]

I wish people talked about this more! Somehow we don’t hear about this during debates. This is a huge issue and we deserve better.

[@emo3113]

Because debates are theater to make the public believe they have power.

[@Jessepigman69]

The world has been telling you lot for years but the common argument is that free health care isn't free and you don't wanna pay for a bums surgery

[@hencole]

It's because ultimately the US is a country of conmen and the conned. Its part of their DNA and why they vote them into office.

[@shannonbarber6161]

@@Jessepigman69France rationed ambulance service. The entire world panicked over COVID because Italy's shit medical system collapsed. There are only two nations in Europe that have good medical care; Germany and Luxembourg. Belgium is right on the line of adequate. All other nations in Europe ration care. (Turkey has a fantastic medical system but it's not part of Europe.) Socialized medicine is a crime against humanity.

[@SchmooYummi]

@@shannonbarber6161 Any nation that has Socialized medicine and rations care is underfunding their healthcare providers. With our privatized system they don't have to ration care because people self-ration (i.e. if you're poor you avoid care). Socialized healthcare that's underfunded rations according to people's needs, privatized healthcare rations according to your net worth despite being grossly overfunded.

[@DankoStojanovic]

When I first moved to the USA and learned how insurance works I could not believe it. This system is INSANE!

[@AndreaSimone57]

It sucks something big and gross

[@Coco-hq6ns]

@@AndreaSimone57 something sinister and beyond description of evil, no it was so dark and malicious that the corpse it called a body itself would writhe in disgust at its own wickedness.

[@colerainfan1143]

It’s only insane if you don’t account for big money political interests and legal bribery.

[@grmpEqweer]

A multi-university study (Yale, Florida State, et. al) estimate 68,000 people die a year from treatable causes due to lack of insurance. People are dying to preserve healthcare profits.

[@ohdaUtube]

​​@@grmpEqweerworks kind of like the NRA and gun manufacturers. Last 20 years, US sold 10x the number of guns to Canada than prior. During that time, gun crime increased 8.69x. Canada is now the biggest importer of guns from the US due to the NRA using its US tactics in Canada

[@LordBLB]

My wife used to work for a major health insurance provider. She's been telling people for DECADES, when people talking about Universal Healthcare being "Socialist". She says, "You're already paying for the system we have. Only instead of getting quality healthcare, we get screwed 2 times, instead of 1." No one seems to care either. They're happy to go about their lives getting screwed, because in their mind, it's better that way... Crazy.

[@jameshw9751]

People seem terrified that their tax dollars might go toward helping someone who really needs help.

[@yellowblanka6058]

@@jameshw9751”Fuck you, I got MINE!” while people are dying of exposure in presumably one of the most prosperous nations in the first world. Disgusting mindset. Oh, and they’ll still attend church and claim they are such “good Christians”

[@castrinecubique983]

It's worse than that. They will fight tooth and nail to defend the present system, because they would rather keep being ripped off for the rest of their lives than admit they were wrong. People are that stipid, apparently.

[@fganat]

This is it in a nutshell! We need single payer health insurance NOW!!!

[@davidvega6045]

I work in hospitals, for insurance companies and finally for a biomedical company. I've seen it all. People I tried to educate just felt hopeless and that nothing was ever going to change. So they basically throw their hands up in resignation. Some of them also her crazy with the "Democratic Socialism" scares. When you try to explain their is a dramatic difference between classic Socialism, like Cuba, Venezuela, etc... vs. Amsterdam, Norway, Finland, etc... they short circuit. Too much education. We're lazy and lost our fight. We've been flanked by so much scamming and corruption that it's grinded us down to numbed up 9-5ers. Sad.

[@kingace6186]

This ain't a tax system. It's extortion.

[@miamitten1123]

_The American Way_ ~ Tony Soprano

[@quesobandidott2309]

Well ya like KZbin and all that shit cost get over it. And tell that to the ppl making bank bc they ain’t lazy.

[@mainhalo117]

@@casualgambit674 the government taking your money is the opposite of capitalism lmfao

[@tiggtiggs]

​@@mainhalo117 not if the govt is corporate captured same as the rest of the West.

[@kingace6186]

@@casualgambit674 Vote. We live in a democratic republic.

[@natalielang6209]

It stuns me that most Americans don't know that you pay more in taxes per person for healthcare and worse health outcomes than most of the developed world.

[@charliebakerspen]

That's why a lot of people don't have health insurance. Not because they can't afford it, but because they realize it's like paying for heat in the summer

[@alexjeffrey3981]

And a lower life expectancy than Cuba, a country under strangling economic embargo for its entire independent existence

[@proxis9980]

not most ALL of the developed world ....2020 the US was even ranked below 2 developing nations :D

[@Ewyndall]

What blows my mind is how adamently how some people will defend it when you explain this. They either start screaming about communism or just go on a small rant about their military/WW2 and somehow now all arguments you provide are invalid. It's mind-boggling.

[@hencole]

I have no idea why the accept and vote for it. When I hear they have to pay on top of their insurance and that their drugs cost thousands when in my country you can have all the prescriptions you need in year for about $120 total.

[@rtj351]

Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat this should wake you up. Feelings and party loyalty aside, we are being screwed 😭

[@MikesLifee]

Well said!

[@chancefluke7833]

Agreed, I believe both sides are guilty at times depending on the representation

[@__Man__]

Screw the two party system, we need many party in the US. Even the same party have factions inside. 1 person, 1 vote.

[@chibyk2008]

This call double screwing.

[@sassysince90]

We need to unite!

[@DPTaterTot]

I have been saying for years that we the taxpayers are the only corporate investors not getting a return.

[@scifirealism5943]

That made me cry.

[@markpitchford7375]

we should quit investing so much in government then.

[@DPTaterTot]

@@markpitchford7375 Maybe FTC laws should apply to congress since they are acting like a brokerage firm with our money? Not sure what your talking about but okay.

[@miamitten1123]

....but you like it that way Stay mad at welfare or food stamp claimants 😂

[@pauldavies7251]

​@@markpitchford7375no you should stop paying insurance so they don't make a profit & that money goes to providing a non profit service

[@danielmundy764]

God bless you Jon for coming back at the most critical time in our history!!!

[@justinmurray2621]

he skipped the second step both times. After you pay taxes, the government pays employees, and for upkeep on buildings, fees and other things. Then they send your money back, but now its less.

[@mtc-j9i]

It’s no coincidence. They brought him back to cool you guys down so you democrats could accept Biden stepping down. I love Jon, but I’m not a Democrat. I just see what he’s doing.

[@stonedphilosopherza4915]

So glad there is light pointed at the atrocities…. We need a social conscience which makes this kind of behavior unacceptable

[@JokerInk-CustomBuilds]

Problem is most of you think social conscience is communism... rgds from europe.

[@ErikratKhandnalie]

​@@JokerInk-CustomBuildsyou say communism like it's a bad thing

[@andrewthomas695]

Good luck with that. This is America, the land of the parasitic corporations.

[@JokerInk-CustomBuilds]

@@ErikratKhandnalie Because any ideology in its extreme form is bad and because historically communism is bad. It has never worked out in history of man... It starts out good until it creates an elite controlling the state and all value while citizens suffer and society crumbles. Capitalism in its purest form is not much different where citizens end up slaving lousy jobs while an elite takes all profits. The only thing that seems to really work well in the capitalist global economical system we have is if it is built on a foundation of socialism. That way there is still motivation to work hard in order to get richer while also making sure there is a taxfunded security system that provides a working and unpartial policeforce, Healthcare, wellfare and education for all. That way most of the population will have the same opportunity for success nomatter being born into privilidge or not. It allows the unfortunate to work hard and break their social inherritance while those who are down on their luck or hit by sickness and bad luck have a chance of getting back on their feet. Americas socialist side is allmost gone because americans have been duped for generations into thinking capitalism benefits them all... Somehow they keep believing taxcuts will make them all rich and forget that corporations are stealing all the profits for a small elite while the majority works long hours for lousy pay. And with that lousy pay they have to pay for healthcare, education and everything else. If they loose the abillity to work even for a short while they will be put out on the street and left to rot. That is exactly why america has a rising homless problem with mentally ill and ppl down on their luck roaming the streets in tent villages. Governments are to protect the unfortunate and weak. The rich will do just fine on their own.

[@Katie18483]

@@JokerInk-CustomBuildsbro if you have to write an essay to get to the point of why communism is bad maybe it’s actually not that bad. If you used your own logic on capitalism you’d realize communism is has been the most innovative political ideology of the past centuries

[@fixitright9709]

My grandmother told me 55 years ago that the middle man was going to destroy our country... I was 10 years old and I never forgot her saying that.

[@sprybug]

Smart, smart lady!

[@LaunchPadMcQuack4Hire]

Wise woman

[@johnhonker437]

The government is the "middle man". The bureaucrats that throw your tax money away NOW will be 100X worse if out of touch millionaires such as Jon Stewart get their socialized medicine. They will remain in their jobs, and throw away even more of your money. Jon will NOT get government healthcare, he will continue to get his rich guy healthcare.

[@redbear9035]

Well yeah! The middle man is the government.

[@derekralston5967]

@@redbear9035you haven’t been paying any attention to this have you 🤦🏻‍♂️ Fuck us all

[@mdforlife]

PREACH! For corporations is business as usual. For the average citizen, it’s LEGALIZED THEFT!

[@JokerInk-CustomBuilds]

And Magas think voting for trump will change this! :D

[@mdforlife]

@@JokerInk-CustomBuildsif all you focus on is the presidency, then you’ve been had. You’ve shifted your attention away from the powers that make decisions in this country. Beware doing this over the next 14 months, because it’s ALL the media is going to do. Distract us with a presidential race commercial as long as they can fund it.

[@georgegates526]

Lobbyists are a legal form of bribery. When we do the same thing, we end up behind bars.

[@johnhonker437]

But you don't think that high taxes are theft? You pay them now, probably about 50% of your income, and get NOTHING. If you pay a corporation, you get a service. Why don't you smooth-brained leftists understand this? The government is the biggest, most unaccountable corporation that the world has ever seen...

[@kodykindhart5644]

You certainly aren’t voting to change it No one you voted for has Changed a thing for your better interest It’s all theatre

[@cultureal9544]

Solution: make Insurance companies into non-profit orgs where their PROFITS must go to manage cares, employees, services, with no golden parachutes

[@jaybailleaux630]

What ? Turn them into the US postal service. Government screws up everything they touch. The Mafia is better than Government.

[@RigelOrionBeta]

​@@biglee9618 yeah, because our health insurance system was _great_ before the ACA 🙄

[@sondragreen9562]

Most of us don’t have a clue how much of our money goes to business & corporations to subsidize them so they can charge us. What?! We call this a system? OMG! 😮

[@starryeye6511]

That's why ppl like the orange cancer say 'i love the uneducated'

[@sprybug]

That's what decades of corporate bribery...eh...I mean lobbying will do.

[@Kahadi]

Right. And those that try looking into it and learning get mocked as nerds and dorks and lifeless losers. People have decided they'd rather be ignorant but athletic than have the knowledge that would help them improve things for everyone.

[@theredscourge]

Gov granting guaranteed business to corporations is not capitalism, it's fascism. Capitalism is about free markets where there are many participants competing for the customer's dollar.

[@josepepuriostegui8471]

Not a single politician during election time will have the balls to explain this to voters.

[@joannsmith3589]

you give those politicians too much credits...they don't even understand it... they're just politicians to feed their narcissistic egos

[@Obscurite1221]

The voters are too idiotic to do the research themselves, unfortunately.

[@henrikt.183]

Well it also happens to be a pretty good system if you are a rich politician getting money from corporations for changing laws in their favor and then investing in those companies as you make the laws. So you see politicians are also double dipping.

[@stevenburrito7032]

Well I mean Bernie Sanders has been shouting about it for ten years. But the Democratic Party works for the health care providers so they tanked his campaigns in favor of those who toe the oligarchical line.

[@Mercuryrulz268]

RFK Jr is the only one being honest

[@alpo6668]

This is why we Americans have the best unaffordable health system in the world.

[@bobkoroua]

Its 15th on the list of countries with the best healthcare. Behind Singapore at 14. Taiwan is at the top.

[@TubeEamo]

That's the real joke. It's still nowhere close to best healthcare system in the world despite how much is spent in relation to it. Per person, the NHS in the UK spends far less and yet provides far better services.

[@harrydehnhardt5092]

​@@bobkoroua And on top of that: "...In 2021, the United States had the highest per capita health expenditure among OECD countries. At that time, per capita health expenditure in the U.S. amounted to 12,318 U.S. dollars, significantly higher than in Germany, the country with the second highest per capita health expenditure." The comaparable average $ 6.100. Germany spent $ 7.100 per capita and nobody has to deal with deductables, medical bills or expensive drugs. And since we are talking about expensive:: "U.S. Drug Prices Sky-High in International Comparison" "Depending on the country of comparison, U.S. residents are paying twice as much, three times as much or even more for their prescription drugs. Research by Rand Corporation has found that U.S. prescription drug prices surpass those in 32 other countries by around 150 percent on average. U.S. patients are even paying triple the price for Rx drugs as Koreans, Portuguese and Australians and 3.5 times as much as Slovakians, Greeks and residents of some of the Baltic countries." www.statista.com/chart/27932/us-prescription-drug-prices-in-international-comparison/

[@bobkoroua]

@@TubeEamo the United Kingdom sits at 27th out of the top 110 systems and US is at 15th. Check "CEOWORLD countries with the best healthcare "

[@andrewthomas695]

​@@bobkorouaYep. It's great until you can't afford it. And that's usually when you really are sick! 😂

[@graddy7jd]

I'm on Medicare and with the copays I can't even afford to get the treatment I need. It's ridiculous. Third party insures need to be taken out of the equation completely. Healthcare should not be for profit

[@uncareid5557]

Let me guess- you went with "free" medicare Advantage

[@graddy7jd]

Unfortunately.

[@ston3kill3r]

In Australia Medicare is a free service to all unless you wish to go private then you pay. Prescription costs are very low to. Hospital services are also free , but again you can go private if you pay for it

[@evelyntaylor4470]

I agree. Healthcare/ Medicare is ridiculous...SMH 😮

[@bokononbokomaru8156]

Unfortunately, the people controlling this snafu system are the ones least likely to fix it.

[@JokerInk-CustomBuilds]

the lobbyists are controlling your government. it is called lobbyism. Thats why it is crap nomatter who you vote for and why the rest of the western world considers both sides of your political climate right wing...

[@Jo-yp8wy]

SNAFU is absolutely correct.

[@OronoDiane]

The masters tools will never dismantle the masters house.

[@ddichny]

Jon Stewart wants to put those same idiots in charge of all medical care in this country. I'm sure it'll work out fine, right?

[@Tiwack01]

Them being fptp-voting and zero campaign financing subsidy for the little guys. @@OronoDiane

[@jennisebert5912]

I will never understand how Americans support this and don’t riot

[@darthpasta3056]

Cause with the two party system we're too busy fighting eachother about race and gender to see the rug getting pulled out from under us, I spend 200 just to go to the doctor and get something for a cold, thata half my paycheck for the week

[@innocentnemesis3519]

Mainly because the system described in the video doesn’t fund equal and adequate education. Let alone that higher education puts us in great debt.

[@Zeldamarie1482]

Because getting rid of those middlemen equals communism since the government would then be in charge of all health care, gas, oil, etc.

[@BlastingXNP]

Almost no Americans do. The problem is, no party here is going to end it.

[@shiningamaterasu2579]

Socialize the system, problem solved

[@tomhooper5386]

Get corporate money out of politics

[@Rejoice.]

All money out of politics. Not just corporate. Otherwise greed will always find a way to work it's way back in.

[@flatebo1]

Then get politics out of business. Government is an extortion racket. As such, it's to your advantage to be on good terms with the guys at the top running the racket rather than with the ground-level guys enforcing the racket.

[@flatebo1]

"All money out of politics." Then strip government of the power to tax.

[@dabackbreaker7288]

Take away corporation rights. Their rights should not eclipse or surpass human rights.

[@7smith77]

the establishment would collapse bc of all the corporate puppets

[@mikeg9554]

The people in charge are brilliant! They have us fighting each other. We've become so distracted and divided by politics so completely that we can't see who is really screwing us.😮

[@goaskmymom1350]

Thanks Mike, that's spot on! We're screwed!!! Shalom, Another Mike

[@clomper87]

I’ve said this for years but nothing changes

[@KC-rb4gv]

Exactly!! When we finally realize the real crooks and unite we will be a better society but no everyone wants to fight for the crumbs from that good ol American pie

[@josephjaworski9344]

I pray my fellow Americans wake up to this painful fact before it is too late! Both political parties suck ass, it's time for a total overhaul of our political system.

[@Pkilla80]

Yup been saying that to every trump supporter for years. I support good ideas and results not a party or a name

[@Lynn-hl9qz]

Our society is imploding, lack of housing, food, water, heat, medical care. How long will we survive?

[@ShanmonWilliams6278]

We start by realizing that the tax and spend description is not accurate. The Tax and Spend description is accurate for other countries and for US state and local governments, but that description is not accurate for the US federal government. All federal expenditures are funded by checks drafted on the Treasury General Account. All tax revenue and revenue from the sell of Treasury bonds and bills are deposited into this account. But the TGA is at the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Reserve has no money. The Federal Reserve has liability records accounting for all American money in existence, but it has no money. When check are drafted on the TGA, a liability record is created and the matching money is sent to the recipient. When money is deposited into the TGA, it is matched with liability records and destroyed. So, our taxes and securities fund nothing. They are collected only to control inflation. That is why congress no longer creates a budget. There is nothing to budget. Whatever funding is approved by congress is created. Economyanswers.org

[@PatrickPierceBateman]

As long as people have food to shove in their faces they won't care.

[@diggindude1]

Stop voting for republicans

[@astroganov]

You call it lobbies, normal countries call it corruption 😅

[@resi4fan4ever]

I live in Europe. We have a lot of lobbyism. Corruption or whatever.😂

[@iversia8546]

Question I wish you can answer, how can lobbies be corrupted??? (genuine question)

[@astroganov]

@@iversia8546 Suppose a politician in office makes decisions in favor of his constituents. That's the way it should be by definition, right? Now suppose there is a big businessman - if all the decisions made by the politician are also in favor of his business, will he hire a lobbyist? Definitely no. From this we can draw a direct and very simple conclusion: lobbyists are needed to force politician to make decisions not always in favor of his constituents. Lobbyists break the politician's correct activity, his actions became corrupted.

[@RH-cv1rg]

@@iversia8546 If politicians didn't meddle in every area of our life, the lobbying industry would not exist.

[@rake483]

@@RH-cv1rg Politicans just follow the orders of lobbyists and donors. Any politican who doesn't follow orders will get destroyed with smear campaigns.

[@markwelch317]

Yes but point out how bonkers this is and Americans start screaming about communism. Lol.

[@john2g1]

It's the flipside of the devil's greatest trick. Convince people that social programs don't already exist. Also, any new ones would be the Communist end of our country.

[@orbatos]

No, a select few do it and convince others to go along with this idea. Those few are supported directly by the wealthy of course.

[@estibon3872]

Not this American. ELIMINATE THE MIDDLE MAN!!!!

[@Karajorma]

@@orbatos It's not a select few who are against fixing the system. It might be only a few who scream, but far too many have listened to the screaming.

[@Specter12142]

Our tax system is corporate communism. They literally write off loses, waste, bankruptcy and get subsidies on top of it all!

[@lorenzotabin1141]

How do we fix it when the legislators are in the pockets of these private companies

[@Gaywatch]

Campaign finance reform, for starters.

[@ShanmonWilliams6278]

We start to fix it by realizing that the tax and spend description does not apply to the US federal government. The Tax and Spend description is accurate for other countries and for US state and local governments, but that description is not accurate for the US federal government. All federal expenditures are funded by checks drafted on the Treasury General Account. All tax revenue and revenue from the sell of Treasury bonds and bills are deposited into this account. But the TGA is at the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Reserve has no money. The Federal Reserve has liability records accounting for all American money in existence, but it has no money. When check are drafted on the TGA, a liability record is created and the matching money is sent to the recipient. When money is deposited into the TGA, it is matched with liability records and destroyed. So, our taxes and securities fund nothing. They are collected only to control inflation. That is why congress no longer creates a budget. There is nothing to budget. Whatever funding is approved by congress is created. Economyanswers.org

[@user-dm3rd2hy9t]

I say with torches and pitchforks but yall being babies about it

[@pawemalz9774]

This is the funniest thing. Americans defend the second amendment so they have tools and possibility to overthrow corrupt, authoritarian or simple evil government, but they used it for everything but not that what is has been put for.

[@user-cr4pz5yg7y]

Bang bang

[@phydauex]

Socialism for the rich, unregulated capitalism for everyone else.

[@johnhonker437]

But you still pay taxes. So... Follow me here... Maybe we should stop paying taxes, 'cause they don't provide you ANY benefit. At least at the Federal Level.

[@thefitgm335]

​@@johnhonker437And then more private prisons will be built to fit those people who don't pay, and gain more profit

[@ngotemna8875]

​@@johnhonker437Other way around, genius

[@A-PatrioT]

@@thefitgm335, Sounds like a tyrannical government to me.

[@electrosyzygy]

@@johnhonker437 you are describing Somalia

[@fixr]

Abolish lobbying, and outlaw drug advertising on TV! Good start anyway

[@victorrand8811]

Thats a violation of free speech.

[@christopherstone4336]

​@@victorrand8811 Not really. Wasn't allowed to be advertised until about 1985 or roughly in that time.

[@victorrand8811]

@@christopherstone4336 that doesnt mean it isnt or wasnt an infringement on the spirit of free speech. Only it became allowed on tv after a certain point. I dnt really want to defend those stupid pharma ads, i just dont think the op's solution is the actual solution.

[@antoniousai1989]

In Europe we have a listing for life-saving drugs, they can't make whatever price they want. Price is locked by the state and when it can't go below, the state will give you a reduction of price for people with less wealth, and you basically pay only 1/10 of the price at the end.

[@antoniomessina5976]

It use to be illegal to advertise drugs in America back in the day

[@sirghosttoad7558]

Imagine being paying twice for health insurance and then insurance denies, and you have to pay the bill yourself. American dream right there

[@soppybottomboys1195]

Did you know that health insurance companies have a system that Auto denies you, and you need to call them to get them to cover the bill. They do this because they know 2/3 of the people wont call and challenge the decline saving them billions.

[@FASBLAQUE]

The word "dream" is the working word here.

[@da324]

​@FASBLAQUE "It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." George Carlin

[@Hulkenbreak]

​@@soppybottomboys1195probably mini fine print under the x. f cap, big pharm and any other mid middleman preventing care for their eotm bottom line point squeeze. America demand representatives support M4A healthcare over profit based healthcare so we can all be healthy together and not worry if we can afford operations or be denied care for some dumb middleman reason or another

[@foreveryactionthereisacons1683]

​@@da324I was just about to type that.

[@twocents7509]

Heck, most insurances don’t even fully cover maternity care. One of the most common, and important cares there should be.

[@Lifes_theme]

Insurance company killed my mom after a cancer surgery. She was bedridden before the cancer, but because she couldn’t walk, she couldn’t make the physical progress requirements, she was denied treatment and sent home with gaping holes in her abdomen and back the size of softballs. We need to disband these companies BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

[@fatine]

I am so sorry for your loss

[@stinky-smelly]

I'm so sorry. That should never have happened. What a vile system.

[@dixztube]

Omg man I hope this story isn’t true. Did the you go to the news about this ? More folks should know… if it’s true.

[@Lifes_theme]

@@dixztube %100 true. Social security disability denied her. I have money and private insurance too.

[@dixztube]

@@Lifes_theme sorry for your loss thats enraging and in a way a loss to us all. i dont even know what could beging to get our political process on track to improve the situation but i think its a fear of many of us not to end up like your poor mother. may god rest her soul and heal your family.

[@JamesLDurney]

The system isn't broken; it's fixed.

[@ColossalSquiid]

Underrated comment

[@therealcirclea762]

That's right. It's not a bug; it's a feature. Of the State.

[@thagodwecreate5179]

Nice wordplay

[@caesarsigala]

Damn. I like that one.

[@LibraVibesSnice80]

United Healthcare denied my emergency service; I went into the ER with trouble breathing 3 days after I gave birth to my daughter. I had heart failure due to pregnancy and had a NDE, luckily the ER doctor saved my life! ❤ yet the insurance company said that particular doctor wasn’t in there network and they tried to stick me with a 15k bill! Well, I appealed and won but the sheer audacity was enough for me… stay healthy out there folks. Love & Light ☮️💖

[@slimesizecounts5873]

Hope you and your daughter are doing well

[@TheDragonfriday]

What the point bill people that they can't even afford in the first place! If they make it more affordable they would see they earn more money instead other way around

[@brmbkl]

@@TheDragonfriday debt is good for the companies; interest is pure profit

[@joodzstuff7325]

My heart aches for Jon Stewart. He makes so much sense. What is wrong with America's rulers?!

[@estibon3872]

John, you forgot the kickbacks the gov gets from the middleman! So, there's no incentive for the gov to get rid of the middleman.

[@timothyjarvis4208]

Yes ,if you mean kickbacks to politicians, want to see how fast both sides get on the same page,? Just crackdown on insider trading. It's disgraceful.

[@EfU574]

Exactly.

[@seamripper0000]

Thank you! My thoughts exactly! And gun control. The majority of the GOP get money from the NRA. It's no wonder those crooks won't inact common sense gun control.

[@castrinecubique983]

What baffles me the most, is the amount of people jumping to defend those pillaging their pockets. Like, what?!?

[@seamripper0000]

I can't remember the exact numbers but adverage Americans spend like 20 - to over 30% of their income on Healthcare. WTF!!

[@petergambino2129]

As long as these midddle men are allowed to "support" our elected officials financially, we the common people are screwed.

[@shermikascutchings353]

Facts. End of story 💯

[@nunyabizznez2805]

​@@shermikascutchings353I hope it's not the end of the story

[@rosslytle5700]

On January 21, 2010 Mitch McConnell and the already stacked Supreme Court redefined "corporate politcal bribery" to be "constitutionally-protected free-speech." RIP USA 1776-2010

[@vladimirofsvalbard9477]

Well, this is why people were screaming about stopping Obamacare. Nobody cared; including Jon Stewart. Now our healthcare system is screwed by insurance contractors.

[@jam_is_jammin]

America. The land where citizens can’t afford to be American.

[@bastil5856]

On the one hand, yes. On the other: That's... Kind of how it's handled in more 'socialist' countries too. Yall have a problem with market interference, pricing and marketing, more than with the tax system itself.

[@jam_is_jammin]

@@bastil5856 our problem is we spend tax dollars subsidizing the wealthier members of society and don’t pay working class members fair wages for their labor. The current system increases wealth and power disparity. The working class is being priced out of owning a home and having children.

[@bastil5856]

@@jam_is_jammin Yes... Which is exactly what happens in european countries as well. It's a pretty universal thing for the global west at the moment.

[@jam_is_jammin]

@@bastil5856 why do you keep bringing up Europe? The video is about America’s broken tax system. Other countries can have a broken system, too. But this video is about how the American system doesn’t serve its people.

[@bastil5856]

​@@jam_is_jammin Mostly because when criticising US systems, the various European ones tend to be brought up as contrast, or as how they're 'better'. Wanted to put it on record that it's not a uniquely US-esque problem, but one for the entire cultural west.

[@amillun]

Make the politicians start paying for their own healthcare. Tired of paying for mines and theirs!

[@bryancogswell6540]

This should be taught in school.. wake up America. You have been screwed for years and years.

[@klime938]

How do we fix it they dont seem to ask us when they raise taxes and we get put in prison if we dont

[@MrPaxio]

wake up urself and realize what this guy is saying doesnt make sense. the graphs hes showing, dont make sense fundamentally. go over to a country with free healthcare for everybody, not just low income, the taxes a regular joe shmoe pays is 42%. at the same income in the states you pay 20%. i rather keep my 20% and pay as i go. this guy is probably benefiting very lucratively off the "americas fked up tax system" yet hes still crying about it

[@julianaherrera308]

Many of us know or see all the signs but trying to get everyone here on the same page is like asking for pigs to fly... news media tries to divide people here by making littles things into big debates so people waste time arguing about things that don't matter.

[@andrewcazarez1308]

Thanks republicans!

[@DeWhytePoverty]

​@@andrewcazarez1308Are You DaF... tell me your brainwashed without telling me your brainwashed.

[@j2rizzo]

My aunt died of cancer. Prior to her death Aetna denied her coverage even though she was qualified. After she died her husband sued and won approximately a $25,000,000 settlement.

[@theketaminekid1241]

Sorry to hear about your aunt, happy for your uncle!

[@Disconnected554]

Good old Murica

[@carnivorous_vegan]

Your aunt deserves

[@toddrf]

It's not like this in England. There they just decide you're not worth treating and no one gets a settlement.

[@johnlambert891]

And it's still cheaper for them bc most people won't sue and they know this

[@tomiossi8092]

So why isn’t Jon Stewart running for a high office? This is the outrage we need.

[@grimmronin3386]

That’s called the most legal scam in history they invented😂

[@vetzaaak]

A scam is always legal if the law was written by the scammers :/ That's why that kind of scammers is commonly known as "the government".

[@googleuser868]

Fiat money and world reserve currency seems to be the king of scams to me. Global Monetary Manipulation.

[@TheEjsc]

😅 we call it corruption in Mexico. But I guess in the USA is hard to understand it or see it that way. Most of the USA is made of immigrants who believe in the government with their eyes close. I mean it’s easy to not care about corruption when they give you a good life compared to other governments. Immigrants don’t have time to learn and protest against corruption the government keep them busy fighting the immigration policy and the Second Amendment right movement. The 2 groups that have power to change the USA, well the government keeps them busy complaining about immigrants and the others complaining about equal rights for gay lesbian and the rest. So we all have an enemy to fight and keep us busy but if that is not enough we get a war or alien invasion news from time to time 😅

[@spencerrocchi3388]

It's called "capitalism."

[@stevelarkins4145]

@@spencerrocchi3388 Bingo, you nailed it.

[@BWater-yq3jx]

Lobby groups and political donations need to be outlawed.

[@darthclone7]

yeah im sure they wont kill you or you're family 😂.. what else you got?

[@RacismIsMentalillness]

@@darthclone7what

[@fredthemanish]

Lobby groups are made up of regular voters who give money. Stop repeating bs

[@dr.jamesolack8504]

‘regular’ voters??? If you believe that then YOU are the bullshitter.

[@jameslim1837]

Donors not paying taxes and and they lobby only to put more laws that benefit corporations. And you wonder why u have so much loans

[@fatkidinabucket]

It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it

[@mirmahmood2619]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@cjohnson7187]

Yet there is an anti woke campaign going on around the country. The goal is to make it a party and race issue to keep people divided.

[@chaoswarriorbr]

George Carlin was usually right on the money...I mean the bs people do.

[@CatDad01]

George Carlin 😐

[@AntiFreezePeach]

​@@CatDad01 This is one of those Carlinisms I don't necessarily believe. But I still admire the witticism. You get 33.3% of a day where you may sleep....and dream.....where 66.7% of the time you are figuring it all out.

[@anonymouskat4868]

I'd so literally for you Jon. Please run for office.

[@marshamariner7897]

He won't...the 2 party shit wouldn't nominate him....he's 2 open....he actually DO THE JOB😭😭

[@Alterdice]

British empire: "I'm just asking you to pay 2% of your entire trade of spices and tea" Founding fathers: "a rain of bullets is what I'm willing to give you" USA govt: "you haven't paid 43% of your total income this year, do you want to go to prison or what? " USA citizens: "at least i don't live in a Communist country"

[@tomfox9083]

Yall are wild as someone who lived under the ussr as a child I fled in 1994 . Still haven’t fled the usa

[@maxthescarecrow4038]

​@@tomfox9083You sure? Because last time I checked USSR dissolved in 1991.

[@jacklaird8362]

Well, not quite that high of a tax burden, but the argument is about right

[@avbhinaya]

😂😅🎉

[@mikesnow4735]

i say it all the time this is the exact government our founding father would be fighting they wrote it in the constitution

[@mrkshply]

Insurance agent here. This is exactly true. We give money to the insurance company and they give us medical care but because they're for-profit, they can only make profit is they collect more money than what they spend. That's why they try to find the least expensive route to do anything. They want you to do physical therapy because a lot of the time physical therapy does help and more importantly it's cheaper than everyone getting a CAT scan when they get hurt. And things like the deductible are there to deter you from using your insurance. A good deductible keeps people from going to the ER for every scratch and bump. But it can be abused because it the higher the deductible the less likely you are to go to the doctor. Low income families are more likely to have lower premium plans but then that gives them higher deductible and OOP. So the people who spend the most, who need healthcare the most are the greatest money makers for insurance companies. Even better if the person is on Medicaid because then the government pays for everything, the insurance company can give bare bones care and walk away with a bunch of profit. Poor people are the main product for insurance companies. For profit healthcare is a contradiction in terms

[@gaiustacitus4242]

You omitted one very important point, that being the insurance industry only averages a 1.8% to 2.0% profit rate. That is well below the 5% average profit earned by businesses within these United States. If the insurance industry did not make efforts to control costs, then the price of insurance would increase to a point that it becomes completely unaffordable (much as it has done under ObamaCare for people who do not qualify for subsidies paid for by those who have higher incomes).

[@69sound81]

​@@gaiustacitus4242 have you ever thought about doctors and hospitals driving up the costs? Listen... I live in Mexico and I have a family business that manufactures veterinary medicines for chicken. We are small, so we compete by using the very best gross products to create our stuff and then we have a 99% production quality control. That means we buy human grade antibiotics and essential salts like Cyprofloxacin and others and we checkat least 99 pieces out of every 100 we make. Often it is more like 99.9%. We know how cheapnor expensive products are and if we buy US imported products we get lower quality and higher cost (not by much though) than if we buy from China, India and Pakistan. But it is weird how that 2% higher cost then turns into a 3 times the cost when processed. Here in mexico we pay a third or less than you guys for the same medicines. And the same goes for doctors. Health ain't cheap and it doesn't matter where tou go in the world, but you guys can pay a brand new car in a hospital and you guys find it normal? Sorry but insurance companies are scamming you guys and they are also getting scammed. And we dont have a good public health care program, but even private is much cheaper than your insurance.

[@mrkshply]

@@gaiustacitus4242 those subsidies are paid for by the government. Also the different insurance "plans" are a method of breaking people up into classes so no, the rich don't pay for the poor. We pay for the poor You are correct that the profits insurance companies are allowed to get are limited thx to the government but it's not as simple as sell insurance- make profit. Insurance companies are massively profitable. The argument to "control costs" was the con they pulled on the government to make advantage plans. They "control costs" by denying care. For profit healthcare is a contradiction in terms.

[@inoke1363]

Thank you for posting this

[@fredrodnick2881]

Medicaid doesn't pay for a great deal of dentistry. Also if you need something essential like a bed ,it's like pulling teeth. You can go a few decades without getting your need met. I know someone that is experiencing this ,so I don't know how you can say Medicaid pays for everything.

[@nomorepotforyou]

"Insurance Companies" for health should be illegal.

[@Steve-sg3uz]

Voting to have a crook steal it from your neighbor for you so you can get it for free should be illegal.

[@Varue]

@@Steve-sg3uzAre you dense… It isn’t free, both you and the neighbor pay into it like insurance, except there is less loss to profit hungry executives and unnecessary employees(see- “scam artists”) in the insurance industry. In america we pay FOURFOLD what we should for health services. We pay a heap of taxes to the government, which aren’t really used for healthcare that much. We then pay the insurance company, which by the way, has not negotiated prices whatsoever with the pharmaceutical industry, so they will charge the insurance company several times what they charge governments in countries with good public healthcare services. Then we pay a copay, which isn’t a small amount most of the time by the way. So we pay for taxes, insurance, price-hiked services, and a copay, just for average healthcare. Whereas in a proper modern system that is people-first, you pay the government, it uses that money to pay doctors directly, and on the side has a committee that must be transparent in its process of negotiating with pharmaceutical companies and service providers to keep costs from inflating. It works in many countries that have better healthcare than us… I feel like you are just ignoring the facts here

[@jasperzanovich2504]

@@Steve-sg3uz You have no idea how healthcare and taxes work, do you? The issue is not hte insurance, the issue is that it is a private for profit company. If it was a governmental institution they wouldn't need to try to satisfy corporate greed. Which by the way is impossible. That's like trying to extinguish the sun with all the water on earth.

[@Squidly.]

​@Steve-sg3uz That's not how it works. You'd actually be saving money if you had a socialised healthcare system because you already do pay taxes for healthcare, but you also have to pay for insurance. Get rid of the insurance part, and you're paying less in taxes for the healthcare. Greedy corporations don't want you to know this, though, as they'd go extinct.

[@sjs9698]

@@Steve-sg3uz oh hey i had 'person with flag as their pfp also has terrible grasp of reality' on my bingo card, yay!

[@ghost_615]

Maybe one day, Americans will realize they're upset about the same things. They're just listening to two different groups about who's to blame, when in reality, they both are. We argue with each other while they rake in profits.

[@shannonbarber6161]

No. This is another lie told. The vast majority of insurance in American is funded by the company you work for and they hire the insurance company to manage the fund and comply with the law. They make a modest income from it. BCBS made around 4% in 2022 which means if they were greedy-evil-capitalist they would close up shop and stop doing it because they would make more money investing in other companies. Many medical insurance companies are non-profits and many were started by churches.

[@Fartelf]

the goverment makes a big fuss about immaterial issues like drag races and abortions to take the focus off big issues like healthcare and corruption

[@coachiti2009]

This is why they should make lobbying illegal

[@statik47]

Who is "they" exactly? Do you mean We The People of the United States? We who are the boss of the government?

[@JesseTheG_]

​@@statik47technically we should be the boss of the government. "A government FOR the people". They seem to have forgotten that and need to be reminded

[@aleafar6295]

I mean, in other countries it's illegal we just call it "corruption"

[@pardismack]

no billionaire will lobby to make lobbying illegal, so it's there to stay.

[@talalahmed8942]

​@@statik47don't lie to urself,the u,s has its owners,bought long before you were born!!

[@anthonycarter8158]

We need to get rich so we can buy our politicians. That will fix this.

[@JokerInk-CustomBuilds]

That is what is already going on my friend. The middlemen lobbyists run your government nomatter who you vote for...

[@saltycracker3649]

LmFAO!!!

[@deerrunner3617]

I would buy a bunch of democrats. Wait, already done.

[@andrewflowers6794]

They sell votes so cheap. We don't have to be rich. Just bold enough to bribe them.

[@BellBivDeveau]

Unfortunately, the stock market is rigged too. They can legally commit crime and just pay a small fee for robbing Americans blind.

[@SirPatrickBossington]

And a solid half of American votoers think those private companies are in the right, and government is the problem.

[@dannyboy5008]

Well, yeah. They government is the one spending the money inefficiently.

[@infinitejest441]

So does the government.

[@ericwood1569]

I mean the government created and reinforced the system. I think the majority of Americans can see there is a problem, but disagree whose to blame. Half say the corporations for profiting off it and the other half says the government for mandating it, enforcing it and supplying it.

[@aaronkeet8238]

It will never matter as long as corporations are people and money is speech

[@firstnamelastname9237]

The government is legitimately part of that problem though.

[@justaguy995]

Once my sister told me the government would tax 50% of my salary to provide health care. What she didn't realize was that I was already paying half my salary to health insurance and had lousy coverage with high deductibles. She's 11 years older than me . This is why we need younger people in office. Older people have no idea what's happening today.

[@dow9386]

It's called a scam.

[@That.Guy.]

This video is a scam. Obamacare was known to be a disaster before it was even brought it on. John Stewart is one of the people who supported Obamacare now he wants to whine about it as if it was someone else

[@aaronb7631]

A scam, started by the Democratic Criminal Empire!

[@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917]

Dude if you can't afford health insurance, get on Medi-Caid. That's why it exists. It's literally subsidized health insurance for those who cannot afford private insurance. I was on it for years under Medi-Cal (California). The US does have free health insurance for those who cannot afford it. It's existed for decades. You don't pay a dime. It's honestly a shame that because of rhetoric such as this YT short, or comments on youtube, that people legitimately don't even realize that free health insurance in the US actually exists. Whenever I tell Europeans this (for example), it's like they are shocked for some reaosn.

[@That.Guy.]

@@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917 you can thank typical Democrat lies and propaganda for the campaign of misinformation to see if the public as usual

[@marvinmartin4692]

More like greed!

[@ronnader2458]

There is only one way to fix this. Take big money out of politics and make lobbying illegal

[@uria702]

Uhh how does that fix anything? It would just be done behind closed doors. It would be a lot better if we just lowered taxes.

[@najahalbrakat8955]

لا يوجد بلد اسمها إسرائيل ابدا. لإن إسرائيل هو لقب يطلق على النبي يعقوب و معناه عبد الله. و بني إسرائيل هم ذرية اخوة يوسف ان ما تروجه المنظمات الماسونية بان. اليهود هم فقط شعب الله المختار و انهم من بني إسرائيل كل ذلك كذب و افتراء و تزييف للتاريخ و الدين لان اليهودية دين و ليس عرق او جينات فيوجد يهود من العرق العربي و يهود من العرق القوقازي و يهود من العرق الفارسي و يهود من العرق الاري و يهود من العرق الافريقي انهم من مختلف الاعراق و الافات مثلهم مثل المسلمين و المسيحيين و الحقيقة و الواقع يوجد من بني إسرائيل مسلمين و من بني إسرائيل مسيحيين ايضا فاالنبي المسيح عيسى بن مريم العذراء عليهما السلام من بني إسرائيل و ولد في فلسطين و لذلك ليس كل المسيحيين من بني إسرائيل لان المسيحية دين و ليس عرق و رسالة جميع الانبياء من النبي نوح و النبي موسى و النبي المسيح عيسى بن مريم كلهم مسلمين لله سبحانه و تعالى رسالتهم تبليغ عبادة الله الخالق العظيم وحده لا شريك له و العرب من ذرية النبي ابراهيم عليه السلام و اخر الانبياء. محمد بن عبدالله صلى الله عليه واله وصحبه وسلم ارسل لجميع الانس و الجن وهو من ذريه النبي اسماعيل بن ابراهيم عليهما السلام و بلاد الشام سوريا و لبنان و الاردن و خصوصا فلسطين هم اكبر من امتزجت جيناتهم بالانبياء و ما يفعله الاحتلال الماسوني الظالم من قهر و تعذيب و حصار و ابادة ضد اهالي فلسطين الموحدين المظلومين اصحاب الارض الحقيقيين هو ظلم عظيم و ذنب لا يغتفر و وعد الله عز و جل قادم لا اله الا الله الخالق العظيم وحده لا شريك له

[@PantsaBear]

@@uria702 How does removing lobbying, and therefore allowing for politicians to form campaigns on Constituant Support rather than the Lobbyists who hold campaigns hostage unless politicians generate support for things against the public's best interests, help anything? Are you actually serious? Lol Yes there will still be corruption behind closed doors, but it would be ILLEGAL, which obviously leads to politicians holding each other accountable to backstab and win elections. And even if it doesnt, youre telling me its not harder to operate in the shadows than in broad daylight? Lowering taxes in a broad sense doesnt solve anything, because the corrupt lobbyist filled government has already committed to allocating money to certain industries and not others. Lowering tax dollars would just lead to us getting worse schools, free health care, transit, etc than it would hurt any Insurance company. Get real

[@stanspb763]

@@uria702If bribery was made illegal, the backroom deals could be prosecuted and we could sue them. I moved from California 24 years ago to a country Americans are told is poor, but quality of life is 1000% better. The free medical system is excellent, even house calls, clinics in every neighborhood so same day appointments. Free excellent university, most people over own their homes free of debt, long family leave, up to 3 years full salary paid, minimum 58 paid vacation, excellent safe public transportation including beautiful subways, electric trams, buses, trollies, ride share, suburban trains, clean safe streets, very low crime rates, my adopted city has 600 beautiful parks open 24/7 that are safe, 2000% better access to culture such as art, museums, drama, classical music, no homelessness. I live very well on $1500 a month that is far more socially and culturally active than even possible back in California when I was making $235,000 a year. I send money every month to relatives back in the US, to cover a few of the outrageous costs that are not paid in any honest country. That $1500 a month is for me and my long term live in girlfriend. Americans live a substandard quality of life, and die in debt. Imagine what life would be like if there was no college debt, no mortgage, no medical costs, or medication 100-1000 times higher then the rest of the world. Comparing the life options and life enhancement, and lack of debt in countries where bribery is illegal versus the US where no law or bill has been passed in 50 years that did not primarily benefit the corporation or wealthy person who paid for it. Look at the infrastructure, dirty crime ridden streets, expensive poor quality transportation systems and corruption in the government, and how Americans claim to be rich and advanced is just laughable.The approaching crash that are already started is going to crush any family which has any debt.. Covid-19 or having no income for a year was no problem, no one lost their homes, or defaulted on loans. Most people just left the city to stay in their summer home to live with good health. Yes, most city people also have a rural summer home where they tend gardens, swim, hike and life very healthy lives. That was common even in the US 40-80 years ago. To reach mine 50km from my city center home cost $0.64. If I was a citizen it would be free due to my age. Americans have very limited cultural lives, a play means flying to NYC for $200 a seat, opera at the MET, which is not a great theater, the last time I was there was $1800 for two. Here, I have a choice of 6 different opera houses every night, for $20 or less. Free to students even if not citizens. I am walking distance to 243 drama theaters, 278 world class museums, 54 classical music theaters and 13,000 4 or 5 star rated restaurants, while Americans eat 64% of all meals at Fastfood crap food that has created the fattest and least healthy population in the world, who can't afford medical care. The poor quality of life in the US is due in large part by the corruption of the federal government owned by wealthy and corporations.

[@polarbeartrainer8252]

Absolutely right.

[@lenseay7645]

The level of corruption is LEGENDARY

[@PeteFish-b1f]

Level of corruption is sorcery

[@brianmi40]

It's not corruption. It's completely legal. It's simply the dumb system put in place via the voting power of the Deplorables.

[@johnlast6066]

What corruption?

[@PeteFish-b1f]

@@johnlast6066 same thing as u not knowing it

[@nashbash_]

​@@johnlast6066 ask "middle man" how they get pointed from government. It usually shows as "cost of lobby services"

[@mylescharles]

I am so sick of people just accepting this crap.

[@WifeWantsAWizard]

Every school in America should show this video to their students.

[@jeffgraham3113]

But the school can’t out it’s biggest sponsor. That would be like a news station telling the truth about COVID vaccines.

[@lugialover09]

Problem is that a lot of schools have a vested interest in not showing this

[@davidgamboa918]

Yep, thats what schools need, more communism!

[@Poliwhirltrainer35]

The community would be outraged to hear that I exposed students to this snowflake liberal way of thinking. I'd be burned at the stake.

[@liammiskell3522]

No they should show them a video of an NHS waiting room. Jon Stewart is full of shit.

[@crazyeye1]

It’s time to take the power back from these institutions.

[@victore8342]

How

[@kallah4999]

​@@victore8342Strong unions led by and for the people. That's how we do it in Norway and the union sits in government making sure corporations can't lobby their way into more power than they should have. If I have a problem with my workplace I can just call the union and they'll fix the problem with good lawyers that I wouldn't have enough for money to beat a corporation with all of it's resources. This holds corporations grounded in our reality so they have to be nice or they'll get sued to hell and back. This also makes sure we can take care of people that's sick and strugling so we almost have no crime compared to the US because people have what they need and don't have to turn to crime.

[@MGrant-bj1dc]

​@@kallah4999Our unions are all corrupt and in bed with the politicians, so I guess we have to start over in that department too.

[@georgek2574]

@@kallah4999there’s a simpler solution. Having Patriots take over our government and making examples of those that have betrayed their country via hangings.

[@daleyfun2247]

Less talk more walk.

[@Ace-xt8lv]

I’m a conservative but I agree with this . Have to call a spade a spade . That is absolutely the problem with these insurance companies and our health care and education system .

[@LoveOverwhelming]

You aren't a conservative then, friend

[@carllabissiere]

Doesn't matter whether you're a conservative or a liberal this system fucks everybody. If we didn't focus on these labels people would have woke up to this shit already.

[@WilsonTexasRager]

Based on what?@@LoveOverwhelming

[@nuknukisdead]

@@WilsonTexasRager To "conservatives" like him, unregulated capitalism solves everything, it is the government that is the problem.

[@DelightfullyMADD]

@@nuknukisdead Umm, because in this case the Government objectively is the problem. How the hell do you think these insurance companies and middlemen get this kind of sweet deal? By having sway over the government. So yes, Government is basically the problem, because without our current government and the rampant corruption, the middlemen would have starved to death and gone out of business a long time ago. Please at least try to pay attention. It's a valuable skill

[@evrfreez]

Why are you like this, America

[@Kiwi-ez2nn]

I was told years ago, “ you’re only as sick as your insurance will allow “ it is so true

[@BOMBON187]

And yet these are the same corporations that will say they hate socialism and say its evil.

[@dog9514]

It is evil. You don’t need to have the government owning the means of production or have a horrible system 😂

[@codebloke2200]

You are missing the point about how the government is enabling the corporations predatory behavior. Clearly more government is the solution! Ha

[@S5ugarfr33]

They also called Islam evil. We banned taxes & usury because in the Quran it’s a form of oppression. We get to keep our money. We only pay Zakat every year (and for the non muslims in our country they pay jizyah), a form of alms which will be distributed to the poor. We pay no taxes & islamic banks don’t impose interest. Surprise 🎉

[@nicholasblackwell9117]

It's about the collective owning the means of production rather than entities who do not contribute in any scale to the production of profits they reap. It's about those who produce value recieving the full of that value, not just a tiny fraction of it. It's about not having fringed individuals having absolute power over your life to a point you have no alternative but to subjugate yourself to their demands or suffer crippling poverty.

[@ignacio3890]

​@@dog9514 REALLY? YELTSIN PRIVATIZE THE 70% STATE OWNED COMPANIES AND RUSSIA LOST THEE 70% OF THEIR GDP PUTIN RECOVERS A 60% OF THAT 70% AND THEIR GDP GROWS A 1500%

[@Floatingdrake08]

"It's a big club, and YOU AIN'T IN IT!" - George Carlin

[@RobertHouston-sf5fh]

He hit that nail on the head didnt he?

[@joyboyskyhigh]

First u work for money than looted money

[@johndavies4498]

This comment is seriously underrated, George Carlin was a genius

[@Atamanxxxvii]

yeah, but George Carlin had lived to see the rise of twitter our opinions of him would be very different.

[@shingitheduke]

The best country in the world

[@merrim3734]

Keep fightin the good fight Jon, you give the world HOPE!

[@allinone-qz2gi]

So when people say they want single payer Healthcare, and other people retort, "Who's going to pay for it?" And the first group says, " We already do" This is what they mean?! Wow 😐 This makes me so angry.

[@castrinecubique983]

This has been denounced for decades. I'm not even American, and I heard that in 1999. Some people just love getting screwed!

[@ddichny]

Now you have choices and alternatives. With a government-run system you have absolutely no recourse. I have relatives in countries with government-run healthcare, I know their horror stories first hand.

[@UserOfTheName]

​@@ddichnyWhat horror stories?

[@muzzymuzzy12]

​@@ddichnyyou know nothing, just wait until you have a medical emergency.

[@wakeyskate]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@ddichnyI like in a country with government (tax) funded health care and we 100% have recourse

[@HannibalKantter]

You have to give the USA's educational system props for making the people believe that they should pay astronomical amounts of money for using a service that's already being paid with their taxes 😂

[@thearcanamodernau8130]

I think they are clueless by design rather than accident. The government and corporations can keep getting away with this if the population is ignorant of this kind of stuff in the first place.

[@InTheDarkAgain]

And the common entity in all three situations is the government. They collect the tax, subsidize the companies, and set standards for education, distributing money to the education system from kindergarten through PhD‘s. And somehow along the way, just about every federal politician enters his elected position in government, with an average net worth, and leaves a multi millionaire.

[@thecomedypilot5894]

This is America under biden.

[@MrBond-lk1dj]

@@thecomedypilot5894well Biden wanted to forgive their loans but some people said no, give the government more money 😂.

[@thecomedypilot5894]

@@MrBond-lk1dj No, biden didn't forgive their loans, he only said that to win votes but he was completely lying.

[@maxfieldstanton4541]

Nearly 40 years later, still waiting for corporations to share the wealth. Thanks, Reagan.

[@garysmokesmeat]

It’s not their job to share wealth with you. It’s your job to earn it yourself

[@maxfieldstanton4541]

@@garysmokesmeat I'm retracting my previous reply. I apologize, there was a lot of judgement and anger in it, that's not going to help the cause. What I'm referring to in the original post is Regan's idea of Supply-side economics. He gave major tax cuts to corporations in the 80s with the theory that they would eventually share the wealth. This was further enhanced with the Bush tax cuts in the early 2000s, and further enriched with rulings such as Citizens United. The reality of this is that we have effectively built a massive welfare system for the ultra wealthy, many of whom have not "earned" any of their hoard. Donald Trump is an example of this, he's done nothing but cheat people out of money since his father gave him a very small loan of $1 million. Meanwhile, the average American can't afford to live in this country. Literally. CEOs of PBMs extort the system so that, as John points out in this video, they get government subsidies while fleecing the people. The average American has to have 2 incomes to just make ends meet. We demonize the single mother who works 20 hours a day at 3 different jobs for subminimum wage because she has to apply for SNAP to feed her children. But when a Billionaire who doesn't pay taxes gets literally hundreds of billions from government subsidies to build a megga yacht with a dock for another slightly smaller mega yacht, the we call him successful. He works less to "earn" that than the disabled veteran who lost an arm in a 20 year occupation protecting oil interests. But that same hero has to work overtime until his grandchildren are dead and gone just to keep up with inflation. No, it's not their job to share the wealth. And it's not our job to save them when they fail...but here we are. Another failed crypto bank and the American people pay for it. That's not how capitalism works, that's how oligarchy works. It's not our job to pay for their play dates in the upper atmosphere. If he wants to build a cock rocket, then he should work harder to earn the money he needs for it. Pull himself up by the bootstraps. But, that's not what we have. We have a system that takes from the most vulnerable who work hard to "earn" their pay and give it to the rich and entitled so that they can enjoy all of the things that we literally put our blood, sweat and tears into. We, the people, run the factories, plow the fields, dig the mines and build the cities that they trade...but we can't afford the goods from the factories, the food from the fields, the coal from the mines or the homes in the cities... There's a disconnect, and it's not the People. It's the Bull that looms over our country feeding off of the poor, tired, and broken masses.

[@Reggaelibrarian]

​@garyandsandrahamlin872 It's getting harder to do so because companies have no incentive to keep wages consistent with living cost. It cuts into their profits.

[@maxfieldstanton4541]

@@Reggaelibrarian and we all know that corporate profit is all that matters. We, the People, have to earn their money for them.

[@garysmokesmeat]

@@Reggaelibrarian but that incentive has always existed. Quit paying employees well, then lose them to your competition.

[@phlungpu1566]

Unity solves every problem facing humanity. Stand together indivisible as humans who deserve and demand better

[@ShanmonWilliams6278]

Knowledge solves every problem. Our innocent belief that taxes fund the federal government ties us to it with Stockholm pressure. The Tax and Spend description is accurate for other countries and for US state and local governments, but that description is not accurate for the US federal government. All federal expenditures are funded by checks drafted on the Treasury General Account. All tax revenue and revenue from the sell of Treasury bonds and bills are deposited into this account. But the TGA is at the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Reserve has no money. The Federal Reserve has liability records accounting for all American money in existence, but it has no money. When check are drafted on the TGA, a liability record is created and the matching money is sent to the recipient. When money is deposited into the TGA, it is matched with liability records and destroyed. So, our taxes and securities fund nothing. They are collected only to control inflation. That is why congress no longer creates a budget. There is nothing to budget. Whatever funding is approved by congress is created. Economyanswers.org

[@ryans3074]

Whole USA system needs to be rebuilt from the ground up

[@slimjim1860]

revamped or renovated fs

[@Youtubeuser1aa]

No our Constitution is legit.

[@Ya39oub_G]

That would mean a revolution

[@wellfleetion]

By competent politicians and not these in-it for themselves fascist clowns on the GOPee side.

[@johnjones3813]

That's what people thought they were doing by voting for Trimp.

[@corvanphoenix]

This is why the US can be characterised as a corporate socialist system.

[@jara2657]

No need to throw socialism under the bus. The US is a capitalist corporate grifting parasites state.

[@IMO1964]

Well fascism basically

[@ShopFloorMonkey]

Yup. Privatise the profits, socialise the losses.

[@CrniWuk]

More like an oligarchy or plutocracy.

[@Hiljaa_]

It's not like really socialist though

[@peterblair6489]

Talk about the least efficient system. America is so backwards.

[@albertbresca8904]

sigh... a government run system would be really bad.... look at the VA .... look at socialist countries... or government run agencies for non essential services

[@peterblair6489]

@@albertbresca8904 They work in Britain, Europe, Australia. Pretty much all the most civilized places.

[@bruhdo]

@@peterblair6489 I live in Canada where we have health care. While it has it’s flaws, can’t imagine every being without it. Like anything else that involves government, there has to be oversight. Also a problem with government run programs, the ones who initially put it in place, at some point lose control. Then what happens is the continual erosion by incoming governments. People need to understand, the problem is governments, not your neighbours who vote for a different political party.

[@vladimirofsvalbard9477]

@@peterblair6489 You've never been to Britain bud. Plus, you would never want to receive healthcare service in the UK in general. Insurance companies RULE the healthcare system in the US and UK. They dictate your level of care/quality; not the physicians. The administrative state that took place under Obama and his cronies completely destroyed the system. It was considerably better before Medicare dollars, insurance mandates, and back when Doctors could manage their own hospitals. Under the government system, they do not.

[@vladimirofsvalbard9477]

@@bruhdo Oversight for? That's what civil and criminal courts are for.

[@monkmysterio]

whats more messed up is KZbin not helping this clip get over a billion views

[@tbone9603]

It’s a corrupt system., always has been. It needs to be fixed! 😮

[@Jerry-rg8mx]

It's called corruption.

[@caesarsigala]

No shit.

[@ouimetco]

Insanity and a corrupted government

[@erikw113]

You call the government corrupt but the alternative would be the government would be in charger of your healthcare so make it make sense

[@devindudich1275]

@@erikw113lmfao literally made no sense go back to school 🤡😂😂 can barley see the point you made

[@tommoore2012]

@@devindudich1275 He only made two grammatical mistakes in his comment. You made more actually.

[@shannonherbert4987]

This is not Capitalism... This is Corporatism.

[@kimberleyhosmer5997]

And meanwhile they try to convince us that the real problem isn’t corporate greed, it’s “lazy poor people”! No chance it could be those CEO’s making 300x more than they pay their workers, oh no!

[@Kahadi]

Huge corporations claim they can't afford to pay their workers more and that if minimum wage went up, prices would have to skyrocket to subsidize the losses. Meanwhile prices continue to go up, as do their profits, and in many cases, their number of employees goes down as they make fewer people do more work, all despite there not being any significant increases to minimum wage. But society encourages ignorance, leading to many people hearing only the partial logic of "they would need to get the money from somewhere" and thus incorrectly believing that paying people more would cause more issues.

[@scout273021]

Try over 900X more than workers it much closer to the truth of wage disparity.

[@catherinedonnelly1025]

Yeah, I can’t believe they’re complaining at all The rich along time ago had to pay like 70% now they pay nothing all the way up to 3% maybe 🙄😳😤

[@w12ath040211]

No it's government

[@sleepycharlie673]

They don't do shit either. They make like 2 decisions a year.

[@rdknght17]

As wise as our founding fathers were they neglected to see the greed of a politician and the influence of money on the political system.

[@lisaac9477]

I'm sure they were well aware as most taxes we pay today are unconstitutional. Don't blame the forefathers when politicians bypass the constitution whenever they want.

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

They were well aware, the system was deliberately designed from the beginning to benefit wealthy white men who owned land. That’s how it’s always been in the US. Everyone else has had to fight for every small right and concession

[@shanda1219]

Wise? They enslaved other humans.

[@Trephining]

No, they were aware of this. That’s why they created a constitutional republic and not a democracy or some other form of government. Ignoring the 10th amendment is part of how we got here.

[@seandobbins2231]

No, they did see it, in fact they placed safeguards to protect the elite against democracy.

[@alittlepuertoricanboy1993]

When you're already aware how fucked the US is...and it gets even worse when the curtain gets pulled more.

[@RichardChappell1]

This didn't open the curtain. Jon misrepresented it.

[@alittlepuertoricanboy1993]

@@RichardChappell1 How so?

[@RichardChappell1]

@@alittlepuertoricanboy1993 Jon talks about it as if it applies to all people and their insurance. Instead, he's talking about a very specifc set of circumstances - medicare, medicare advantage and those with lower incomes through the ACA. This is just a small of the total. Jon is misrepresenting it as a way to manipulate people into supporting the full government takeover of healthcare. What Jon is going out of his way to ignore is how US healthcare costs, and particularly perscription costs, are elevated to subsidize other countries' costs. He ignores that because it would go against his case. He is also making sure not to talk about how the insurance costs are elevated in poor communities to get more government subsidies. Tha fact is that when you invovle the government, everything gets much more expensive and far less efficient.

[@whatoh3407]

​@@RichardChappell1lmao what a load of crap that just came out of you lmfao oh God America.

[@nickthompson1812]

@@RichardChappell1 it applies to colleges and higher education too.

[@joylynne1343]

Please keep speaking out. We the Peeps are being exploited on both ends. Thank you.

[@person35790]

The fact that the gov’t gives so much money to those insurers and a broken leg can force a not insignificant number of people into severe financial distress while they have ‘insurance’ is just criminal.

[@iamjurell]

In which country does having a broken leg *not* massively increase the likelihood of severe financial distress?

[@carlhall2563]

Jon Stewart for President!!!

[@zaccoop6727]

if only...

[@nobodyburgen4594]

That would be fantastic. I don’t agree with Jon on some issues (I lean a tad further left than him), but he’s such a smart, charismatic person. If he ran, i’d vote for him.

[@travr6]

Jfc no. Absolutely no

[@davidvondoom2853]

Put an army around him at all times, because all these con-men out there, ripping off the current system will be out for his head.

[@EdBoonSucks]

Joe Biden - "Nah, he's to old."

[@sanan4144]

USA is sadly rotten to the core by money. For a country so big and so rich, with so much talent, it could do much better for its people. They could easily sort food, shelter, health and work for everybody, and still have gazillions to play with…

[@uria702]

What are you smoking? The U.S. is the most in debt nation in the whole world. We are completely broke. 40 trillion in debt that can never be paid back. How is that the richest country?

[@Ratinevo]

Keeping the rich, rich, and the poor, poor.

[@AzizAhmad-n4d]

They don't want you to get money and become independent.

[@seaternickerson7734]

We’re 30 trillion in debt lol, and this video was a HUGE overestimation and had inaccuracies, also you know how n@zi Germany, Soviet Union, and socialist china took total control over the country? They controled the healthcare, education, oil and gas etc then, the citizens are completely reliant on them, that and some propaganda, and “gun control” then boom the whole country is controlled by the government.

[@seaternickerson7734]

@@RatinevoBy laundering money? Yes, and those rich is the government.

[@ambercherise2391]

And he provided visual aide! Jon Stewart is a gentleman and a patriot.

[@knut]

And then, once the middlemen collapse because their executives got too greedy, the public has to bail them out because they're "too big" or "too essential" to fail.

[@PDBUbbler]

To big to fail is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.

[@jillgarrison1917]

I remember when Jon Stewart reported news.He's usually a govt. schill.

[@sodaaccount]

@@jillgarrison1917 Argue the facts, Ivan... Ad hominems went stale ages ago.

[@Natsukashii-Records]

@@jillgarrison1917 Tell me one instance where Stewart was on the govt. side. I'm waiting.

[@jillgarrison1917]

@@Natsukashii-RecordsHim fawning over war criminal Hillary Clinton of the DNC.

[@waynefolsom6955]

I thought that the Affordable Healthcare Act was a terrific idea, until it was disclosed that the 6 largest Insurance companies had a hand in writing the bill... Talk about putting the wolf in charge of the chicken coop.

[@Smoshylife]

The act did make it illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against people with pre existing conditions which was cool

[@InalienableOtter]

But remember, when the Republicans opposed the Democrat bill written by the 6 top insurance companies to screw you over.. well, they’re just meanies who want to deny you this incredible healthcare! It’s funny that some people can complain about the problem without seeing *you* are the problem.

[@InalienableOtter]

@@Smoshylifeit also fined you for not having health insurance. I love a government issuing fines because you didn’t buy a private product, having already paid taxes for that product, from their top donors..

[@TBJL66]

Trump got rid of that fine

[@gustavju4686]

​@user-neegisNo Republican voted for the act.

[@jessetorres8738]

I once saw this image that said that if someone lived for 80 years & earned an average of $5,000.00 every day of their life, they still wouldn't be a billionaire, but rather have about $150,000,000.00. At the bottom of the image was a line that said that no one works to become a billionaire. So yeah, we should be taxing multi-millionaire & billionaire individuals & corporations in this country more then we currently are! And if you want to argue that taxes shouldn't be raised on the wealthy & corporations, how can you defend them when they send their U.S. dollars to other countries so they can't be taxed & help fund domestic programs to help poor people here in the U.S.?

[@CrimsonRayne]

Didn't elon musk get taxed 50% and he's a super billionaire

[@asheronwindspear552]

​@@CrimsonRayne as I understand it he would be taxed that if he was earning a wage, however his wealth is all tied up in stocks and does not exist as money in the bank so his the amount of tax he pays is 🤬 all while receiving government money for Space X programs.

[@bryanbenson6551]

​@@asheronwindspear552of course! Socialism for the rich, suffering for the middle and lower class!

[@bokononbokomaru8156]

Warren Buffet freely admits our tax system is so biased for the rich that he pays less income tax than his secretary.

[@orbatos]

​@@asheronwindspear552This is because as an incentive to investors only divestment is taxed. Also investments of nearly any kind can be used to offset any profit through amortization. Combining these two things alone allows for the wealthy to continually make more money while paying almost no taxes.

[@linac8307]

Insurance in this country is a scam.

[@joannaquanttumphysics]

So is our "health care" system. It's really sick care.

[@germanshepherd6638]

So is “higher education “

[@misterturkturkle]

insurance is a scam in all countries

[@nugsnjugs9954]

My health insurance was my highest payment besides rent. Higher than my food costs, and I never even seen the doctor for 3 years.

[@zeldalazino463]

Thank you Jon! It’s so important for people to see this which is why your graphics are so helpful .

[@Esnara2085]

I don’t align with Stewart typically but FINALLY someone talking about this ludicrous tax system

[@aaftiyoDkcdicurak]

It's more like paying gangster for "protection"

[@waynewedderburn2535]

Americans need to elect better people to Congress. Officials that have the people in mind and not Big Business

[@Kyonikov]

Unfortunately elected officials seem to sometimes follow the money.

[@impeachy1518]

VOTE PROGRESSIVE, NOT JUST BLUE.

[@jcdesantis69]

Humans need to be conquered by a benevolent alien race. Human greed is something we cant control. We need structure and someone to curb our excesses. You cant vote new people in cause their humans and just as bad as he ones you voted out.

[@nathanbrady8529]

Without PAC money from those same corporations, it's difficult to run a campaign. All our systems are fucked up for a reason.....

[@shankshoanatlprez4453]

Wish Jon Stewart would run for President and call out those unwilling to serve the American people. Just as he does on his program.

[@marketasuchankova1649]

Run for president John Stewart ❤ we need ur honesty and problem solving

[@deenegron6328]

America is not a country it's a business, money trumps integrity and peoples lives. Your oppression is their profession.

[@castrinecubique983]

It's a willing dictatorship. Imagine being so uneducated and manipulable that you happily vote for the people plotting to remove as much rights as they can to their voters. Republicans in a nutshell.

[@laggismaximus]

Can't be oppressed by a voluntary system.

[@paolazo-l4790]

you're funny, voluntary you say? @@laggismaximus sorry you've been tricked

[@wrenjussaume9595]

​@@laggismaximusvoluntary implies consent. What happens to me if I withhold consent to be taxed and live off grid? I go to jail

[@davidvega6045]

Pres. Calvin Coolidge 1925, "Americas business is business...". He tried to cut taxes for working class Americans. And warned us of monopolies/conglomerates. It's too easy to bribe politicians. Cause it's legal now. Citizens United made it worse.

[@death265]

Jon we need you as President! Please make this ultimate sacrifice for us!!

[@ComDenox]

The president has way less power than you think. One person isn't enough to change a democratic country. Ironic how the objective of a democracy is to stop a single bad person from having too much power, but that also stops a single good person to have the power they need to make change.

[@paulofurtado4925]

America is a business.

[@conansredbowtie]

Look at who the previous president was. A business man.

[@paulofurtado4925]

@@conansredbowtie really? Its not the presidents its the government and big corporations, all corrupt.

[@TheCJsamson]

*A poorly run business

[@borntodoit8744]

America = a Bad business

[@borntodoit8744]

​@@conansredbowtieTrump was a conman, never business man.

[@cal2780]

Make this a PSA on every television station! Play it every commercial break like the mind numbing pharmaceutical ads!

[@Kereru]

When you're poor its "no handouts! Pull you're by your boot straps!" When you're rich it's "Have some more tax cuts and subsidies"

[@Mark-em5zm]

I recall the poor paying no taxes nor their ER bills but people like me who make 100,000 pay taxes and medical bills. Make it so that only taxpayers can vote and the problems would be solved overnight.

[@Kereru]

@Mark-em5zm What problems would be solved? Are you and going to pass laws to force doctors to refuse ER treatment to sick children and people so you don't have to pay for it? Are you going to kick the elderly off medicare?

[@lil-g4879]

@@Mark-em5zmso you don’t want the elderly and the disabled to vote? And why do you think poor people on less than a living wage should pay tax in order to vote? Christ, I’m so glad not all societies are built in your image. Sounds like modern day Republican MAGA America.

[@grabbity]

​@@Mark-em5zmthat's...a take. I don't know a single low income person who pays no taxes. I don't know a single working person who paid less money in taxes than Donald Trump paid, during the couple years before and during his presidency ($750).

[@grabbity]

​@@lil-g4879he also apparently doesn't want our former, disgraced president to vote, considering he paid $750 a few times and $0 more than once. Nor Roger Stone, his campaign advisor for his failed 2000, successful 2016 and failed 2020 campaigns. Though to be fair, Stone owed millions in taxes, he just didn't pay them

[@gregdenson7544]

Smaller government is conservative code talk for more corporate control.

[@Theomite]

They never said they were against private tyranny. Especially if any one of them was the tyrant.

[@kodykindhart5644]

And you like big gov? 🤣🤣 Ppl are fucked

[@laggismaximus]

Not at all.....just less government waste and regulations.

[@megadeuce-b7c]

Really, that's what you gather from this? Who is subsidizing insurance companies? He said "Tax payers", but the arrow comes from... You know what, watch it again. Smaller government would not subsidize insurance companies. Why do insurance companies need to be subsidized? Are their profits too small to survive? If that's the case, then you need to explain it from the poor insurance company's perspective.

[@Theomite]

@@megadeuce-b7c Big or small government is irrelevant if it's full of bribed agents. The whole reason this happened in the first place is because laws were drafted to put the middlemen there in the first place. And the middlemen were the ones who drafted those laws and spent the money to get those laws changed. The middlemen/insurance companies are the cause of the problem because the legislation allowing them to be the middlemen came from them. It was their money that paid for it.