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Americans who voted for Trump while on Medicaid, Medicare or Social Security, as many poor Americans are, my find that Making America Great Again involves cutting their key source of income.
In 2022, people in over half of all counties in the US derived more that 25% of personal income from these three Govt. welfare schemes. In rural areas many of these people thought MAGA was the answer....
Trump may be about to show them the meaning of the term 'bait & switch'!
#politics #inequality
h/t FT
@ChrisMayLA6 On the other hand, I think few people can argue that it should be the right of a certain group of people, to have others toil away for them? That would be like making other people slaves to support the ones who don't have to do anything.
Trump is delivering on his promises. I think a good replacement system would be a 100% private insurance system.
There is one problem though... and that is how to move from todays unethical system, to the private one in a smooth way.
I think we're back to the social problem of luck; how does (and perhaps should) the state make up for the uneven distribution of luck (over health & wellbeing) in a society?
@ChrisMayLA6 And/or should it? Luck is not well defined, and measuring it, and basing policies on it sounds unfeasible to me, outside perhaps, lotteries.
In this context, I think of (bad) luck as being things that impact on people's lives over which they have little or no control... but yes, equally it remains in specific instances difficult to define; but on the other hand politics is always about 'difficult' issues, isn't it?
@ChrisMayLA6 Well, I think politics goes from the trivial, to the difficult. On the trivial level, I think almost everyone can conclude that we do not want violence. We have the right to live our lives free from attack. But from there, it quickly goes downhill. ;)
And now I am of course arguing from "within" modern democracy, so adding authoritarians to the mix, we of course start from a difficult place, since they tend to favour the rule of the strong.