# On Abolishing Taxes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-abolishing-taxes/669033>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 17, 2013, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-abolishing-taxes/669033 "2013-09-17T06:57:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-abolishing-taxes/669033/161 "2013-09-27T00:25:45Z")

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The US health care system undergoes constant changes, as evidenced by the recent health care bill.

But yeah, propaganda is part of Americans’ lives too. To deny that it also influences Canadians…

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**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-abolishing-taxes/669033/162 "2013-09-27T02:08:35Z")

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> [@adaher](#):
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> The US health care system undergoes constant changes, as evidenced by the recent health care bill.
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> But yeah, propaganda is part of Americans’ lives too. To deny that it also influences Canadians…

Constant? Yeah, every president since Johnson has achieved a goal of reforming the US healthcare system. Right.

So why is Obamacare remotely remarkable?

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**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-abolishing-taxes/669033/163 "2013-09-27T04:51:57Z")

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It’s the closest we’ve come yet to universal health care. We did Medicare, Medicaid, then SCHIP, and now ACA. It’s a patchwork to be sure, and I hate a lot of it, but I also think it’s better than single payer, not worse. Except for cost, of course.

You know what compromise I’d take? To put everyone on ACA and abolish Medicare.

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**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-abolishing-taxes/669033/164 "2013-09-27T12:03:41Z")

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> [@adaher](#):
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> It’s the closest we’ve come yet to universal health care. We did Medicare, Medicaid, then SCHIP, and now ACA. It’s a patchwork to be sure, and I hate a lot of it, but I also think it’s better than single payer, not worse. Except for cost, of course.
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> You know what compromise I’d take? To put everyone on ACA and abolish Medicare.

Those are “constant changes”? What are you, an ent?

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