Trump GOP war on poor, sick, disabled, and drug users
US could save $1.5 trillion a year (with a "T") with Canadian Single Payer healthcare! How? Cut out the middleman!: Health insurance companies! See the math below. Trump and GOP have been firing staff and/or cutting funds for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, special-needs education, SSI for disabled, etc.. They have called for longer drug sentences. See: Beyond drug war, debt, and wealth concentration. To single-payer healthcare and progressive taxation. See also: GOP War on Poor! And Drug War. And: Cannabis war. Part of Republican war on poor. This article was written by Timeshifter.
US healthcare costs twice as much per person as in Canada
Return to top. Click to enlarge. 2022: Canada: $6,319. US: $12,555. See: Healthcare in Canada. And: Comparisons to US. See List of countries by total annual health spending per person (all costs public and private). Canada spends half of what US spends per person on healthcare. And yet Canadians have a longer average lifespan. The reason is single-payer healthcare: The middleman (health insurance companies) has been eliminated.
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Full Report: Health at a Glance 2023: OECD Indicators. From OECD. Figure 7.4. Health expenditure per capita, 2022 (or nearest year). It is from page 157 of the full report PDF. The StatLink is for the Figure 7.4 bar chart, and the data table for it. |
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Health spending by country. Percent of GDP (Gross domestic product). 11.2% for Canada in 2022. 16.6% for the United States in 2022. |
Save $1.5 trillion yearly in the US with single-payer healthcare
Return to top. How?: Eliminate the middleman, the useless parasitic health insurance companies. Save $1.5 trillion yearly in the US. Canada spent 11.2 percent of its GDP for total healthcare costs in 2022. US spent 16.6 percent in 2022. 5.4% is the difference. 5.4% of US GDP is $1.5 trillion dollars in 2022. Universal single-payer healthcare savings, and progressive taxation, could pay off the $38 trillion US national debt. [1]. See Wikipedia: US national debt. Share link.
US wealth concentration causes affordability problems for non-rich
Return to top. The poor and the middle class pay the taxes that the wealthy should be paying instead. Wages are not keeping up because the federal minimum wage has not been raised. It acts as a floor for wages above it. So middle class wages don't rise enough. See Wikipedia: Fight for $15.
We need steep progressive income taxation as under FDR
We need property taxes extended to all wealth
Massive concentration of wealth is not just happening in the US
Return to top. Massive concentration of wealth is not just happening in the US. 20% of adults in France and Germany own the vast majority of wealth in both countries. Note the Gini %. That means the labor of 80% of the countries is underpaid. Median wealth per adult is significant since there are an equal number of adults with wealth above and below that number. In 2017 France's adults were more than twice as prosperous as Germany's at the median wealth level. Still true in 2023: List of countries by wealth per adult. The US is between them.


See: Commons: Category: Wealth distribution pie charts by country. And Gini percent, or Gini %.
War on poor and drug users
Return to top. Section link. See also: Trump GOP war on poor, sick, disabled, and drug users. Republican war on the poor, and middle class. Since low minimum wages lower wages above it too. The inflation-adjusted minimum wage peaked at over $14 in 1968 (see chart on page 2). It has halved in real value down to $7.25 today. The stolen wages went to Trump's billionaire club, and stayed there due to Reagan and Trump's gutting of progressive taxation via tax cuts for the rich. See CRS chart. "Study after study has found that raising minimum wages has a positive effect on employment." - John Driscoll, of Patriotic Millionaires.org - Sep 12, 2024 article. See Facebook: Patriotic Millionaires. And see many maps showing the failings of Republican states. [2] [3] [4]. GOP states overall (as in the South) have the worst cannabis laws, lowest minimum wages, worst healthcare, etc..
| US minimum wage would be $25.52 an hour in 2023 if it had kept up with productivity. The split coincided with Nixon's 1971 declaration of a War on Drugs. |
| Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage. $7.25 states are majority Republican in both houses. Get PNG map noting GOP states. |
| See Wikimedia SVG map. See PNG map [5] (for Facebook, etc.). |
| History of the US federal minimum wage. Over $14 (inflation-adjusted) peak in 1968. $7.25 an hour now due to Republican filibusters in the US Senate. |
| See PNG version (for Facebook, etc.) |
Fox News hosts call for killing mentally ill
Return to top. 2025 Sep 13: Fox News’ host Brian Kilmeade says ‘just kill ‘em’ during discussion about mentally ill homeless people. Reported in many places. His Fox News cohosts agreed. Nazis first campaign of systematic mass murder (1939) was the killing of disabled and mentally ill people. Codenamed Aktion T4, the program served as a rehearsal for the genocide of the Holocaust.
The images are free. The text is in the public domain
Return to top. Please share the link, the images, and the text in any way you choose. Adapt, incorporate, rewrite, pass on, copy as is, etc.. The images are free because they are from the Wikimedia Commons. One is under Fair Use. I put my text in the public domain. Most maps and charts on the web nowadays are in the public domain. See Commons:Template:PD-map and Commons:Template:PD-chart for more info.







