Comment on White House website publishes a page on "socialism". They think it will scare people to hear that if we tax 1000 billionaires, $355,000 worth of benefits will be distributed to 150,000,000 households.

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mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I was thinking that’s how OP meant it, but that still doesn’t match the sites claim. And yes, I know the site is stupid and wrong, but its not self-owning. The site is saying that the 355k is paid by individual families, and that cost is clearly greater than buying private insurance would cost anyways. So the site is saying “you’ll be forced to pay 35k each year”. It denies the idea that taxes on billionaires would cover the cost. So it is exactly claiming that we take the burden on individually.

The website is internally consistent, it’s just wrong with respect to reality. But it doesn’t contradict itself.

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