• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    19 hours ago

    Is significantly reducing the cost of life saving medicine and giving families $300 a month per kid not left wing policy?

    You’re either incredibly uninformed or purposely undermining the left I can’t tell which.

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      15 hours ago

      the child tax credit only lasted one year, and the cost reduction was only for the elderly

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        9 hours ago

        child tax credit only lasted one year

        not true at all

        the cost reduction was only for the elderly

        Not true and even if it was 100% elderly people it is still a bill that grants significantly cheaper drugs for 65million people of a demographic that is the most in need of perscription medication. Which is a objectively a good bill and furthers left wing ideals. If you dont agree I genuinely dont believe you are on the left since you actively want a worse world.

        Are you getting your info from google AI summaries, im genuinely curious how you are so confidently wrong.

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        7 hours ago

        It should be, but Americans still dont want universal healthcare. The last polling I saw had it at just over 50% supporting Universal healthcare. If you want to implement a huge change like universal healthcare you probably want to have at least 70% of the people on board. Otherwise you implement it and half the country tries to drag it down and make it unusable. Look at how the right wing in the UK is trying to destroy their national healthcare system.

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        7 hours ago

        Its ending under trump. The 1 year of significantly boosted CTC was government assistance given to people. The right wing version of that would have been tax cuts for business. Could he have passed legislation that kept ctc at that amount, probably not and it would likely be repealed by Trump. Just because something could be better doesn’t mean it isn’t good. If you use “it could be better” as an justification for something being bad then people can say the same thing about things you mention. Oh yeah he passed boosted CTC forever well he should have increased it more, he should have given to to all families, he should just give that money to everyone. Lets be realistic instead of delusional so things in the real world can actually get better.

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      18 hours ago

      Not at all. Making families buy life-saving medicine, at whatever price, is in fact the opposite of left-wing policy. Universal, single-payer health care is just centrist policy in many countries.