"them SCOTUS Justices gotta WORK for that RV"

Pretty cheap for billions of dollars of decisions.

More like Clearance Thomas.

" It has to do with America is in debt, and can't get out of it."

Maybe start with not renewing expiring tax cuts.

Have you thought of that? Because you were dead silent when the BBB was being debated.

Basically, the folks you enable are just about to borrow another $5 trillion, mostly to give away in tax cuts to the world's wealthiest one percent.

Why didn't you speak up?

"A problem with ACA is it didnt address run away medical expenses."

"medical inflation."

Apologies: I should have said out-of-pocket medical expenses. My error.

The effect on the inflation was, obviously, greater than my claimed 44%.

From Google AI:

Before the ACA (Pre-2010)
Consistently High Inflation: Medical inflation, measured by the Price Index for Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) for health care services, was consistently at or above 3% per year in the early 2000s.
After the ACA (Post-2010)
Slowing Inflation: Health care services price growth saw a significant decline after 2010, reaching a near-historical low point of under 1% in 2015.
Periods of Low Inflation:
The period between late 2014 and early 2016 saw particularly low healthcare inflation, a rate not seen since 1961.
Rebounding Inflation: From 2015 onward, healthcare inflation began to rebound, increasing from under 1% to nearly 2% by early 2018.
Long-Term Comparison Medical Care vs. Overall Inflation:
Medical care prices generally grew faster than overall consumer prices throughout the period from 2000 to 2024.
Growth in Out-of-Pocket Expenses: While overall medical inflation slowed after the ACA, out-of-pocket healthcare expenses increased at an average of 3.4% a year before the ACA (2000-2009) and a slower 1.9% a year after (2010-2018).

(Math: 3.4 minus 1.9 equals 1.5; divided by 3.4 = 44%)

"I knew small businesses and self-employed who said ACA hurt them."

That's because of the mandate, not because of (the usual) leaps in premiums.

Plus, the self-employed get to write off 100% of the premiums against taxable income, including a spouse's premiums.

" Health insurance costs have been rising faster than almost everything else for decades. The ACA didn't start that. Didn't fix it either."

What's higher, moron ... a 5% rise, or a 15% rise?

Actual Math only.

" But my main point is this has been building for decades. Everywhere I worked, group plans climbed year after year often in the double digit"

Yes. THAT'S WHY we needed Obamacare.

And don't look now, but you just admitted the facts disproved your claim.

In reality, the rate of medical inflation radically DECREASED due to O'Care.

One of the reasons I know is, I was against Obamacare from the start, but admitted I would have to give props if the frightening medical inflation trajectory was favorably altered.

It was, and for that I have always given the credit to Obamacare.

Meanwhile, you're lying about it. The central tenet of your claim is bulllschittt.

" Obama's ACA health care accelerated it."

You clearly don't know what you're talking about.

In the decade before Obamacare, medical inflation was over 4 times actual inflation. The trajectory was frightening.

Obamacare bent the trajectory downwards, and gave health plan Trustees (like me) some breathing room.

You're LITERALLY CLAIMING THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT HAPPENED.

" #1 in income inequality."

That's to be expected in the state with the most upward mobility.

Do you understand the equation?!?

"You Communists"

Huh?

Did someone suggest the end of private property, and I missed it?!?

" Screaming at people (especially at CHILDREN) is NOT 'free speech' in fact if it's violent speech it's assault."

Agreed.

But nobody said it was violent speech except you. Somebody yelled at Junior; NOT A CRIME.

"You only pay if you work."

Not in a tariff system. You pay when you purchase, just like the importer on American soil.

" A car does more killing than guns."

But it's not the car who does the killing. Remember?

"Should they be able to drive?"

Not if they're going to kill someone. We get reckless drivers off the street, and we don't let them operate a vehicle.

" The gun didn't do the killing."

You're right, the PERSON did the killing.

Now ... should they've had access to guns, or not?

"I would assume that tax cuts for billionaires wasn't why most folks voted for Trump"

Except they all stayed silent when the BBB borrowed $5 Trillion in new deficits to do it.

" many US Americans either strongly desire or would like a fascist government. "

As long as it's their fascist.

"A lot of people are saying, maybe we'd like a dictator"
~Donald Trump

"for cause"

Now post the legal requirements "for cause". It's not just "cause" The President said so.

"He can FOR CAUSE fire anyone in the executive branch."

The Federal Reserve Bank is not part of the executive branch.

" from J6 they charged an insurrectionist for throwing a potato chip bag"

Your ease of lying is frightening.

Why do you regularly leave out the salient parts? Are you that dumb, or that dishonest?

" Still no Trumpers want to defend this."

They're waiting for Dems in power before they clutch their purses regarding the deficit.

" There's been quite a number of them Rein"

Is 4 "quite a number", by your definition?!?

" While federal law does not explicitly "demand" deportation in all cases, a person who is unlawfully present in the U.S. is subject to removal proceedings"

aka Due Process.

" Vance, a former senator, had complained about an incident where someone yelled at his son while walking through Union Station a couple of years ago."

Also known as FREE SPEECH.

Remember no tax on tips? That expires in a little over three years. A waitress making $25K will save about $20 a week.

Meanwhile, the average billionaire saves over a million dollars a week.

And all the former screechers about deficits have gone dead silent.