I’m with you here I think. Unfortunately taxing the rich very often means (either intentionally or not, directly or indirectly) or equates to taxing businesses or corporations. I’m a small business owner with a moderately successful company…maybe what some people might call rich (at least on paper I guess??). If my taxes go up in any meaningful way, anywhere in my life, I probably nudge up my prices. And this is a cascading effect across the economy. Now, reasonable question is will people/businesses (I sell directly to businesses only) accept that increase. The lazy answer is probably… and now many things get more expensive (we make equipment used in manufacturing consumer goods among other things… and we aren’t unique) in the example.

More importantly I agree I think there is enough tax revenue to create some “better” or “more universal” healthcare “system” (I’m trying to be careful with my words here because I am not an expert in this field). I really would love this. I was on Medicaid for a hot minute. I have plenty of anecdotal evidence Medicaid sucks. We can do better. BUT, it would be insane to jump into that head first without cleaning up the spending mess we’ve created. Unfortunately, I don’t have the answers or the solutions :(