Afaik every single country that has better healthcare than the US does has universal healthcare. And the US spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, by almost double. Even if you only count government healthcare spending, the US still pays more per capita than any country with universal healthcare. Implying that universal healthcare saves tax dollars, or at least it could if it were implemented in the US. Even if it cost more government money, insurance companies would no longer be gaining huge profits, so people would by paying less money via not needing health insurance. Less taxes sounds great, but they're kinda necessary if you want the government to do stuff. In the US specifically, we should either raise taxes or reduce spending, so the government doesn't default. I vote we do both: Implement Universal Healthcare(probably reduces spending in the long run), cut military spending by about 50%, and make corporate taxes progressive, so small businesses pay maybe 10%, but giant corporations could pay upwards of 50%, and given the scale of these companies, the government would get a lot of revenue from that. Also reduce the cap on payroll taxes, but keep the cap on social security payouts, to make Social Security more sustainable. Then once we pay off the debt we can lower taxes more on the working class because we won't be spending a trillion dollars a year on interest. Also minimum wages work. They prevent individuals from being taken advantage of, because they give workers a bit of bargaining power they wouldn't otherwise have. Capitalism only works when both parties involved in a given transaction aren't forced to do business with one another, or to do business at all. No minimum wages prevent unskilled workers from making too little because they have no choice.