re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The reason we have skyrocketing deficits is because demagogues like Trump ignore reality. He just wants to give millions of dollars to his friends, and screw anybody else.

But if we want to really have improvement in healthcare in this country we have to answer some hard questions:

1) if the choice is to build another aircraft carrier, or to build 10 hospitals, which do we want?
2) If we significantly raise taxes, are we going to renegotiate international treaties on the flow of money, to keep people and corporations from sheltering trillions of dollars in offshore banking?
3) Are we going to have industries where it has long been known that their workers and the local residents suffer health problems as a side effect of the industry - petrochemicals in particular - keep avoiding from pricing the damage in their product? Are we going to tackle the socialism-for-corporations-but-not-for-people problem, in other words?

Notice when the GOP enacts it’s priorities of massive tax cuts for the wealthy, defense budget hikes or waging war on brown people, it never asks how to pay for it, it just does it. But before Democrats can help a single person in need, instead of killing them, we face this brick wall of resistance over funding.