2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Show me the large group of working millennials looking to pay much higher taxes for [View all]ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...implying that if only those millennials had jobs, they'd be voting for Hillary rather than supporting Bernie.
Of course it does not account for the fact that most millennials do have jobs -- although in many cases, they don't pay enough to cover their huge college tuition debt, that is if they were lucky enough to be able to go to college in the first place.
It's just another form of hippie-punching.
And of course, your post also implies that universal health care and free college tuition are things that "we" should not have to pay taxes for. Which is a very illiberal position. As others have noted, universal single payer health care would indeed raise taxes on individuals but it would eliminate their private health insurance premiums by more than their taxes would be raised, so I fail to see why any thinking person -- working or not, millennial or not -- would be against that? And in the case of tuition free public colleges and universities, the costs are paid by a tax on Wall Street transactions. Neither you nor I will notice any effects from that tax. The big Wall Street firms will, though, and that is why they are fighting the idea tooth and nail.