like i said the question of taxes dont matter

idk if u know but the first question asked on free college is how do u pay for it

many conservatives say but that requires more taxes

ect ect

Yeah so I would say it requires more taxes, but I think it needs to be looked into where those taxes are going specifically

it does not

And if it's local, that wouldn't be federally funded right ?

if its state funded then you need taxes

federal no

we are not at full employment inflation is not a issue right now

once we start to reach full employment then we should stop increasing

So you're saying it should move to being funded federally

rather than state

medicare and medicaid is funded federally

public option is federal

free college would be federal

I mean tbh I don't know enough about for the federal reserves work to have a solid opinion

its fine

And it would require looking into other countries, typically nordic countries with free college and studying up on their economy and how it works there

those countries cant do what the can do

they are part of eu

they have a eu bank

greece got FUCKED

IN THE ASS

Mystika my mother was not fine without a respirator, she nearly died. The WHO does say the virus is airborne, so I’m really shocked you have that lax attitude.

It drove her to quit the profession

I'm sorry to hear about your mother. I'm simply re-instating what WHO said on their website about aerosols. And I'm saying at the hospital I work at, we aren't required to wear n95 masks and the nurses here don't catch covid even though they work with these patients everyday.

I'm not attacking your mother and her experiences in any way, I'm sorry if you felt that way. I'm simply giving my opinion based on what was in the WHO article you posted

I understand you aren’t required, but it should be

My mother caught it

All it takes is one small mistake and you get covid.

And i know you arent attacking my mother

N95 masks are reserved for cases where they are needed, like dealing with people who have contracted TB so the supply is reserved for them first.

Yes i get there arent enough of them i said thats why they cant be required- cost and availability

I don't make the rules in my hospital

But they should be, it sucks

@Mystika do you know organic chem?

A little, but not in its entirety

I work in the chemotherapy clinic, so I know more about cancer drugs than most other meds

vbonecrusher you do realize that foreign entities buy us debt- right now almost half of it right? The ceiling that the US can spend is based on the reputation the dollar has like you say, yet when spending greatly exceeds GDP this leads to fragility of the dollar. Money is not unrelated to resources. Peter Schiff talks a lot about the fagility of the dollar in this context.

https://schiffgold.com/key-gold-news/yale-economist-warns-of-dollar-crash/

The more you spend with a disproportionate GDP the more dependent you become on foreign standing of the currency. The US could easily lose its comfort of reserve currency and at that point- yes- the US can go bankrupt not just the states.

So yes taxes are needed to fund government spending, you cant just keep outsourcing the resources backing the dollar and expect is to retain its reputation. When countries lose faith in the dollar and it no longer has reserve currency that debt will have devastating consequences to trade.