Steve's barking; The cost of single payer healthcare .

Now I keep hearing that the cost of single payer ( or as I want single payer ( the government gives you a voucher from your taxes to buy health insurance) would cost trillions of trillions of dollars.
Because I don't have the figures in front of me but I know how to figure it out..
First we get the figures what the states and local governments pay toward health care, as in the case of states is 20 to 30 percent of the budget. I don't know what local governments pay but I imagine it's about the same. Then we take what businesses pay, add that in. Next we take what all employees pay and add that in. Next we add in what is payed by Americans who buy their own insurance.
If we decide to eliminate co pay all together we add that in. Maybe if we want to put eye examines and glasses in to the mix along with dental we find out how much the cost of insurance is being payed plus what those who don't have insurance are paying. That's shouldn't be a tall order for all those think tanks.
Now we go to the negatives or how we're going to pay. Number one states will no longer be paying health cost there by eliminating a percentage of deductible ( even standard deductible) that the tax payer pays. Medicare payments as we now know it would be eliminated. A health tax will take it place. Heath care accounts will no longer be needed. Deductions will be reduced, health care decision  not needed. Now we get into tax the rich for the rest of health care. No not really, There are many imaginative ways of taxing(?) such as a having a health tax for corporations that move headquarters to avoid paying corporate taxes. A one percent health tax on any corporation foreign or domestic that does business in the US of A.

The reason I'm writing this is nobody has explained were they got their trillions and trillions added to the public budget.
We just have to believe economist on faith, while they don't explain how they got their figures from.

Steve's barking; Europeon socialism, bad example

A lot has been stated how well that almost all the European countries take care of their citizens.
Health care being one of the primary examples.
Wrong look toward any European system. The damn bureaucrats and their call for austerity are eating away at the very core of their health care system.
Some of the European nations are giving the senior citizen high anxiety with cuts to their pensions.
Then the bureaucratese wonder why they're going through a recession.
The good old US of A must take what's good from Europe and through the rest away. Europe for it's part should stop looking across the pond for stupid advice, they can f*** up all by themselves .

Steve's Barking; American politics or brat attack

Another free commercial for candidates for president better know as candidate debates.
In all the debates what is lacking is a clear definition  of how each positions of each candidate will benefit the American public.
What is the most important thing the Republican candidates want you to know about is that in most cases their more conservative then the next candidate.Now a big question in the Democrat debate is that candidate Hilary Clinton may or may not be a progressive.
I like to call this a brat attack. This is like what bratty children sound like. Your Daddy is ugly. No your daddy's ugly.
 I call myself a progressive, after all I need Social Security, get a government pension, live in a housing complex that was created by progressives. Got my education through the GI bill, and worked for a government agency that was created by a progressive agenda, so if I wasn't a progressive I would be a hypocrite.
I also like to call myself a Hamilton conservative.
In some way being a Hamilton conservative and a progressive are miles apart and in other ways they are the exact same thing. When we think of America's founding father's he was called the most conservative, yet he was the one who was the most anti-slavery. He was also the one who pointed out that the constitution in it's preamble states to promote the general welfare. What could be more progressive then that.

Steve's barking; The name of game isn't win primaries

The name of the game isn't to win primaries, or even get the most votes.
The true way to win the nomination to get at least 50% plus 1 delegates if no one gets that amount then we get what is called a brokers convention which hasn't happened in recent memory.
It's quite possible not to win a single primary and still win the nomination of a party.
It's also possible to win a vast majority of primaries and not get the nomination.
That's the Donald's problem. I don't think he's going to get enough delegates.

Steve's barking; Why Uncle Bernie Winning would be good for the Democratic party

Uncle Bernie needs new voters to win.
There is a good chance that these new voters would vote along party lines, voting for Democrats.
In order for Uncle Bernie to win there must be a huge turnout of new voters.
If the Democrats put up candidates in every congressional district, the house will (surprise, surprise)  turn around.
The Democratic party needs new blood,so if my thesis is right they need Bernie more then Hilary for Hilary would not bring in new voters.

Steve's barking; The stock market has gone down because....( not enough information )

Watching (actually listening) to business news channels during the current down turn in the markets. Answers given, because the price oil has dropped the stock markets have taken a hit.
                           Because the down turn of the Chinese economy (down turn not collapse) American companies are hurt.
                             Because of the crash of oil prices counties such as Saudi Arabia have to cash in their stocks and bonds from their sovereign wealth fund in order to pay their welfare programs.
. (Good possibility).
                             Because foreign markets have fallen, investors who bought shares of stocks and bonds on margin, their calls have come in and those who owe must sell what they can to cover. (Good possibility)
                              Because the market has gone down individual owners on margin must sell, forcing the market to go down. (Good possibility)
                               Because large institutions don't want to show to much negative income they are in panic and selling.(possible)
                                Because banks lent money to oil companies that might not be able to pay back, therefore their stocks are taking a beating.
Now some or all these reason may be correct, but there isn't enough information to make a correct judgement as to why the markets are collapsing.
 This is just like several test that I've taken were one of the possible answers is not enough information to answer the question.
                       
                               

Steve's barking; Are those who claim that health care is a large tax increase on the middle class are math challenged

Let's assume that some sort of single payer or a single payee health care system came in to existence in the good old US of A. Now of cause some sort of taxes would have to be raised to pay for it.
What's not discussed is the taxes that one would not have to pay the states to pay for the health care system that is currently in place. Currently a state like the Empire State pays between 30 to 33 percent of it's budget on health care. Most states in the union pay over 25 percent of their budget on health care, not counting what counties and municipalities pay for their share of health care.
Now how do these entities pay for health care? I do believe it's a thing called taxes.
And what about Medicare taxes that would not needed to be collected.

How to pay for a health care system. Let's say we spread it out. Having an extra couple of percentages on capital gains. Maybe putting a percentage or two on estate taxes. An extra custom tax on companies that moved out of the U.S. Now the perhaps the goods were made in America, doesn't matter, custom tax them anyway.

If one adds it all together the middle class may not pay that much more in taxes then their paying now.
Those who are against single payer or payee using the argument that middle class taxes must go up, may just be math challenged.