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Study: New taxes could fund universal California health care |
2017-06-02 |
[SFGATE] A longshot Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, proposal to replace insurance companies with government-funded health care for all of the state's residents could be paid for with a sales tax hike and a new tax on business revenue, according to a report released Wednesday. The report said those taxes would generate $106 billion annually. It was made public by the influential California Nurses Association as the state Senate faces a Friday deadline to vote on the bill, which outlines how a single-payer health care system would function but does not say how it would be funded. In a study commissioned by the nursing union, researchers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst suggested a 2.3 percent sales tax and a 2.3 percent gross receipts tax, which would apply to all corporate revenue. Poor residents would get a tax credit to offset the higher sales tax. Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Gov. Jerry Governor MoonbeamBrown ... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ... , both Democrats, have expressed skepticism about the proposal. If it were to clear the Legislature and be signed into law by Brown, it would need cooperation from President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's administration to waive rules about federal Medicare and Medicaid dollars. |
Posted by:Fred |
#10 Abu, South Carolina is a better deal. Just about every tax you can name is higher in NC than in SC (we moved across the border in 2008 and have never looked back.) |
Posted by: Tom 2017-06-02 14:26 |
#9 I think California is missing an opportunity here to tax the bordering states just because they get to experience of being next to the most glorious state in the world! |
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-06-02 12:47 |
#8 I was talking to Mrs. Uluque about North Carolina last night. Not sure she's on board yet. She didn't want to hear about Ricardo Lara. |
Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-06-02 11:15 |
#7 IIUC, this is the second single-payer funding proposal. The other one would be funded by a significant increase in income taxes. |
Posted by: Pappy 2017-06-02 11:11 |
#6 The other 49 states should offer all welfare recipients universal health care via one way ticket to the People's Republic of California. This may not work, it depends on having doctors of which most if not all would have left else where for lower taxes and cost of living. |
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-06-02 09:40 |
#5 This is a general outline of OUR Article Five Amendment process and goals: (.PDF) |
Posted by: newc 2017-06-02 02:14 |
#4 The other 49 states should offer all welfare recipients universal health care via one way ticket to the People's Republic of California. |
Posted by: Airandee 2017-06-02 01:58 |
#3 How about studying what happens to populations and businesses when they are overtaxed? |
Posted by: gorb 2017-06-02 00:37 |
#2 Abu Ulu, Time to pack it up and head for higher ground. |
Posted by: Voldemort Hupomomble1468 2017-06-02 00:30 |
#1 There is a reason socialist countries have a 63-75% tax rate. Enjoy bondage Caliphornia |
Posted by: DarthVader 2017-06-02 00:21 |