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Volaris

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4. For that to happen, we actually have to deliver this time.
Wed Jun 3, 2026, 02:35 PM
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No, they won't like it, but if we do voluntary single payer, where if you're signed up your premium is a hundred bucks a month and the rest of the bill just goes to the treasury, yeah there will be political damage from that. BUT.

Already, the frustration is rising from missing ACA subsidies...IMAGINE THE RAGE what would happen ten years from now, if the gop tried to strip that back from 100 million red-hat and blue-collar Americans.

This time, we need to put our money where our mouth is, and be willing to take the short term hit for it, if for no other reason than we know how to make it work (simple) this time. If we do that plus abolish all federal taxes for individual incomes LESS than say, 150K a year (minus social security, etc), that's a majority the Republicans will have nothing to run against until 2050.

What, back-bench culture war nonsense? Don't make me laugh, gop!

But we have to be willing to do it, and we have to be willing to demand that our Majority demand it, too.

Besides. If the ACA IS repealed, the 'free market' can go back to fucking over whoever can still afford to BE fucked by them, and that won't be YOU cause you're not IN the Free Market system, cause YOU signed up for federal protections from that, not because the Democrat Party thinks you need to be babysat, but because we think you're smart enough to know who's gonna actually give a fuck about You and Yours.

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