Is it possible for Donald Trump to pay off the $19 trillion national debt in 8 yrs?
Think about it, if a half a trillion is reduced each year from the budget it would take 44 years to balance.
Why is it many American conservatives on Quora oppose Donald Trump? Isn't he their ultimate dream candidate?
Because regardless of his ‘dream’ status, if he follows through on his promises it’s going to be a disaster to make 9/11 look small.On 9/11/2001, 2996 people died.The US government plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act (A.C.A.) which will deprive 16,400,000 people of health insurance. They promise to replace it with something new, but how many people will die waiting for this new plan?Let’s calculate.The current US death rate is about 8 people out of 1000 every year.Americans living without insurance are 40% more likely to die.The death rate for uninsured Americans is about 11 people out of 1000 every year.That’s 3 more deaths per 1000 people per year.16,400,000 Americans suffering a 0.3% increase in mortality means 49,200 new corpses each year.That’s sixteen 9/11’s every year that the A.C.A. is repealed but not replaced.That’s more than one and a third 9/11’s every month.But, and this is important, those who die this time won’t be 61% white males as on 9/11.They’ll be mostly minorities.And the poor.And children.And women.You know, not people,At least not in the eyes of our government.
What proportion of Americans want Obamacare repealed?
There are dozens of polls, with results all over the map. Most of the variation in numbers can be explained by asking different questions and how the answers are classified.This poll shows a three-way split between implementation, repair, and repeal of the law, with much smaller pools of support for defunding or expansion of the law.This poll doesn't break down the demographics for every answer, but they do break down the party affiliation (Democratic, Independent, or Republican) of who they would blame if the government were to shut down (the poll having preceded the shutdown). Republicans are mixed about whether to blame congressional Republicans, and Democrats are mixed about whether to blame congressional Democrats and are extremely protective of President Obama. Independents are eager to blame all three groups, though they seem to blame congressional Republicans somewhat more. It also breaks down support for the new insurance exchanges based on how people are presently insured, with the highest support coming from those who get their insurance from government already and from government insurance. The uninsured and self-insured are somewhat wary about participation. I suppose it is the insurance mandate that is addressed to those latter groups, while the insurance exchange is primarily directed at those who get their insurance through their employers.If the question is simplified to either for or against, a picture emerges that is more favorable toward repeal, though the gap is still rather narrow.There is no demographic breakdown for this graph.A similarly narrow majority of 52% Expect Obamacare to Make Health Care System Worse. I don't see any demographics breakdown by answer given.
Despite the good that NAFTA accomplishes why might some americans disapprove of it?
Nafta was a great idea on paper. After all, according to economists, trade makes everyone better off, right? Well, sort of. Trade makes the seller and the buyer better off, but it does nothing for the seller's employees. Let me simplify: Let's say that I have a factory and I make lamps in the US. I can sell them for only so much and still sell them. Buyers are not very willing to pay a higher price than some arbitrary amount. So I found out I can relocate my plant to Mexico. In Mexico I don't have to pay very high labor wages to my employees there. Not only that, but i don't have to pay social security taxes, or health benefits, or deal with union problems. great! I get to keep more of the manufacturing costs in my pocket, and since there is free trade between Mexico and the US, I can just truck them over without paying import tariffs on my lamps. And then I sell the same lamps for the same price, but since it cost me less to make them, I end up a winner. But by moving that plant away from an American town, I deprived that town of all the jobs that are now being performed by non-US citizens in a non-US country. Nafta only benefits the foreign workers and the business owners. Yeah, the consumer gets to keep a little of his money because the price of goods remains low. BUT.... that is if you have a job that provides you money to spend on those goods. Clear enough?
Is there a difference between national healthcare and single payer healthcare?
A single payer system means that everyone pays into one health insurance pool, typically run by the government. Canada and Great Britain are examples of a Single payer system. National health care is more of an ambiguous term, and does not refer to a specific health care system. National health care is more synonomous with the concept of universal health care. So, a single payer system is one example of national health care, but national health care is not necesarilly single payer. Obamacare is a form of national health care in the sense that it makes buying health insurance mandatory for private citizens (the so-called individual mandate), and includes provisions to deliver health care to the poor and low income through subsidies and medicaid. So to simplify it, Great Britain's National Health Service (a single payer system), and the United States healthcare system with the new provosions of Obamacare (which is definetly not a single payer system), could both be described as essentially providing universal health care/ national healthcare. But the two systems are nothing alike.
Why are so many dumb people against taxes?
I guess this isn't really a conservative TROLL question, but it sure reads like one -- at least till we reach the fine print. Whether it's "dumb" to oppose taxes depends enormously on which taxes we're talking about, who needs to pay these taxes, and how the government uses the revenues they generate. IMO, it's not "dumb" for people to hate some taxes, though it would be foolish to hate all of them --not unless you're an extreme left-wing anarchist or rightwing libertarian. To answer an over-simplified question, I believe most people are against taxes that apply to us, rather than to other people. Some people are against specific taxes because they think they're grossly unfair in some larger sense. Some conservative Republicans -- as I once briefly flirted with being, long ago -- also cite economic research that shows some taxes are counter-productive, that they don't promote the goals they're pretending to support. As a democratic socialist today, I personally think some taxes are absolutely necessary for the existence of a civilized society. But I also think that many taxes, such as sales taxes, unfairly take money from the poor and give it to the rich. And I agree with libertarians who don't like tax moneys going to support massive government spying on individuals. I also agree with many liberal pacifists -- although I'm not a complete pacifist -- who are horrified at how much of our tax money is going to support stupid and often immoral wars. In general, I don't think it's useful to talk about taxes in general. (Yes, a little joke!) As the medieval Catholic theologians used to say, "God and the Devil are in the details." -- democratic socialist