Florida's Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Andrew Gillum is absolutely hitting the ground
running after winning his Democratic primary a week ago.
And what he's doing is going out there and spreading a hugely progressive message.
This past Sunday, Gillum went on CNN where he talked about the fact that, yes, we need
a Medicare For All system in the United States, but if we can't get it in the United States
than we need it here in the State of Florida.
And when pressed on how to pay for it, Gillum had the perfect response.
He said, "We're gonna raise taxes on wealthy corporations.
We're gonna make these corporation who are already paying well below what the actual
corporate tax rate is, we're gonna make them pay their fair share.
We're not gonna take everything from them.
Their taxes are still gonna be among the lowest in the country, but we can't do this cheap
date thing with corporations here in the State of Florida."
That is exactly what he said, and that's what's happening.
Corporations in this country do like to move around from time to time.
When they're shopping on where to build a new factory they like to pick areas with the
lowest tax rates.
And often times areas, cities, states, will lower their specific taxes just to attract
that new business because usually that new business is also gonna kick in some campaign
funds for whoever happens to be running that state.
Gillum's not buying into that.
Gillum's not falling for it.
Corporations, if they need to expand, they're going to expand.
They have to, or else they start losing money.
And all he's asking is, what is the number?
It would be a 2.25% tax increase up from 5 1/2 to 7.75% on corporate taxes.
So, a 2.25% tax increase on corporations.
Almost not even noticeable for them, right.
2.25% increase in taxes, and that would help pay for Gillum's plan for a Medicare For All
system here in the State of Florida.
He also admits that, that's not gonna be enough.
He doesn't want to raise taxes on them too much to drive them out of the state, so the
other part of his plan is to reach out to other states, and to insurance companies,
and pharmaceutical companies.
Get everybody to come together.
Have the corporations agree to lower prices a bit to make things more affordable, and
have other states come in, and help buy into this program, and fund it as well.
And then everybody wins.
That's the thing that I think health insurance companies, or pharmaceutical companies, or
hospital corporations don't quite understand.
They think they're gonna take a hit if they have to lower their prices.
But in reality we already have people in this country who aren't refilling their prescriptions
because of the cost.
What happens if all those people, thousands upon thousands of them suddenly do start going
and getting their prescriptions because you cut the price in half, and now they can afford
it, or now there's a Medicare For All plan that's going to afford it for them?
You're gonna make more money, and all you had to do is be slightly less greedy, and
then you actually win.
But corporations don't have that kind of foresight.
Luckily, people like Andrew Gillum running for governor in the State of Florida absolutely
does.
And on top of that, Gillum is clearly plugged into the will of the people and understands
that 70% of people in this country, Republicans and Democrats alike, support a Medicare For
All plan.
This is not a radical idea.
It's not a new idea.
It is a mainstream idea, and that is what Andrew Gillum is running on.
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