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The really baffling thing is that often they didn't get theirs in the first place.
It's closer to "I would rather neither of us get it than you get it too".
Glaring example being healthcare. Per Capita the US spends way more than any other country, twice as much as the OECD average. Yet not everyone has access to proper healthcare, the and statistics don't look great for mother mortality and screenings for preventative diseases...
But you know, they'll be damned if their moneys paid for someone undeserving (poor or person of color seems to be coinciding with who they think do not deserve healthcare), but wasting tons of money on bureaucracy and fat profit margins, that's apparently a-okay.
Right? Even the most cynical perspective would say that it doesn't matter if a freeloader gets healthcare since your costs are still going down. But a lot of people seem like they would rather pay more than risk someone else getting something for free.
Personally, I think a big part is people are used to the costs of healthcare, and so when someone says universal healthcare will cost $X Dollars a month, they put that on top of what they're already spending.
Not necessarily consciously, but the cost of insurance is "spent" already, so switching to a different system is deducted from their mental budget that's already factored in the insurance costs. $150 a week in tax increase is taken from $500 take-home, missing the $250 healthcare costs, since they never see that money.
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