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"Taxpayer Money" Threatens Medicare-for-All (And Every Other Social Program)

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Whose team is that? Maggie's all-stars? Is this where leftists want to be? Well, you're either on that team, or you're on another.

Don't wanna play on Maggie's team no more? Get off it, and get on one that starts tomorrow with this slogan: "Medicare-for-all and abolish payroll taxes!" I guarantee: People, all working-class people, will listen.

The problem right now isn't whether people will listen. It's whether left activists will learn for themselves. and develop sincere and effective ways of explaining what they know to be true.

There is one simple answer to the question "How are you going to pay for it?" That answer is: "With money."

You know, the kind of money that's created for everything else, with: "the following sums are appropriated." Let's make it so.

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