For those who are not familiar with USA revolutionary history, the Boston Tea Party was a riot against an increase in tax on imported tea imposed by the king of England without any consultation with the British North American colonies. The actual complete phrase was “No taxation without representation.” The irony is, many Trump supporters are not saying anything about Trump’s unilateral decision to impose tariffs, bypassing the representation Congress is supposed to provide.
Alt text: A two panel comic. Top panel has a title of 1776, and a white man is yelling angrily. The word bubble says “Pay a 3% tax on tea and paper. Screw that! Revolution!” The bottom panel has the title Now and a white man looking despondent. The word bubble says “Pay 40% of your income. Sure that’s totally fine.”
The right always forgets that the reason why that happened was due to “taxation without representation”.
In Hungary, we pay a separate “healthcare tax” (state insurance, to “get people and the state ready to get rid of communist healthcare”), and I’m willing to pay that. My problem is that we have Europe’s worst healthcare system, part because our government doesn’t invest in education thus no doctors, part because of massive corruption and as such things become way more expensive, part because that money gets reappropriated towards “sickness prevention” (building stadiums, giving money to football teams, etc.). That’s what I’m angry about, not that I cannot express my “individualism” by pledging brand loyalty to “Evil and Rich Kiddy Fuckers from the US” Health and Humane Inc.
True. I often hear a criticism of universal healthcare is long waits to see a doctor, and so the right claim socialism fails. But the reality is, as you mentioned, it is the lack of investing in free higher education that causes having too few doctors. Everything is connected.
what, i thought hungary had a universal single-payer system such as nhs and sus.