ks.234
Half way to Infinity
Type into the YouTube search bar "why universal healthcare won't work" and you'll see lots of videos explaining why it won't work.
Of course it's a load of b***shit, but it's surprising how many Americans believe it. But not only Americans, I know there are plenty of British people who believe the UK healthcare system isn't working because "people are living longer" and "it needs to be privatised so it can be run more efficiently".
The source of the problem has got to be the right-wing media. Why else would people think this way?
Yes, the media is projecting a right wing narrative, but it is the false Thatcherite narrative that government has ‘no money of it’s own’ that grips the imagination to the extent that people believe that any government spending will have to be covered by a rise in their own tax burden. It is a method of control that says, ‘if you vote for improved health care, or tackling the environment, the you will be presented with a heft bill to pay for it’.
This false narrative is in effect right now with the NI tax rise, and sadly, the media has not had to do a persuading job to sell the false narrative, most voters just accept it.
In fact it seems to make people quite angry to be told that their tax does not fund government spending, such is the depth of the deception and the extent that it has infected the whole narrative before the media gets hold of it. The media is just manipulating a pre existing condition.
Government spending is constrained by many things, but revenue from taxation is not one of them.