Post #4503613
2026-08-11 22:02 UTC
...and you're saving, say, $2,500/yr in premiums/etc while your taxes go up $2,000. On paper you're coming out $500/yr ahead, hooray!
...except that you also gave up a $10,000/yr pay raise in return for the insurance which is now moot.
In your head, you aren't saving $500, you *lost* $10,000.
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@charlesgaba.com@bsky.brid.gy 2026-08-11 22:04
This, by the way, was part of why Kamala Harris' much-derided 2019 universal coverage proposal (before she dropped out of the 2020 primary) *deliberately* included a 10-year implementation process: She wanted to ensure that EVERY union would have time to renegotiate. acasignups.net/22/04/03/upd... UPDATE: In which Kamala Harris...