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paying for your lunch. And if you get your insurance from a government, taxpayers are already paying for it. So one way or another, our annual $3.3 trillion health care bill is already being covered.

Despite what Mr. Ramirez claims, Sen. Harris is not proposing “free health care for all”. “Free” means that nobody pays for it. Ms. Harris is proposing “Medicare for all.” Under the way that Medicare currently works, participants pay a modest monthly premium along with an annual deductible that covers generally 80 percent of your health care costs, with the participants paying the other 20 percent out of pocket or by buying supplemental insurance. Medicare pays the 80 percent (less premiums and deductible) from federal tax revenues.

Medicare for all would work the same way. Except that the “buy-in” for people under 65 would be a much higher premium/deductible to cover the 80 percent cost. This premium could be paid by the employer in part or in total, with the employee paying the balance through a payroll deduction. People currently paying out of pocket could continue doing that.

In effect, the premiums currently paid to private insurers would now be paid to Medicare.

So the short answer to Mr. Ramirez’s question as to who will pay for Ms. Harris’ health care plan is the same people who are paying for health care now. Sorry, there is no free lunch. And now he is canceling a 30-year nuclear treaty with Russia because he says they, too, have violated terms of the treaty.

Violate a treaty with the United States? We’ll tear that treaty up so you will not be impeded in building your own nuclear arsenal against America and countries that were our allies prior to 2017. I wonder if Donald Trump is considering making murder legal, too, because that law is violated every day. folk. But we all know where they eventually lead: right to your front door.

But there’s more.

Two liberal governors — from New York and Virginia — have defended legislation that permits infanticide.

Not only do these bills allow third-trimester abortions — the killing of a child up to a few minutes before delivery — they would allow the physician to kill the child if it successfully fends off the initial attempt on its life. Essentially, the unborn child has the status of a purse or cellphone.

Who are these people and how do they get elected to power? How anyone can vote for a government to seize a person’s property is one thing, but to ally yourself with a political party that devalues human life and allows the murder of a defenseless human being is disgraceful. These people must be removed if we are a civilized society and some semblance of common sense and compassion returned to our governing class.