E.J. Dionne Jr. - Health Care's Year
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4 comments:
One Who Knows! said...
This is not "change" as you and I want it.
And if they succeed, the country you and I know and love will no longer exist. Everything we conservatives have fought to defend and preserve will have been lost.
In its place will be a country we scarcely recognize. What will it look like? Let me give you a glimpse...
IT WILL BE AN AMERICA where a majority of citizens receive lavish government handouts and benefits but pay no federal income taxes, meanwhile voting themselves still more benefits from the shrinking minority who do pay taxes -- at ever more "progressive" rates
IT WILL BE AN AMERICA where "universal health care" means waiting months, even years, for urgently needed treatment -- unless you happen to be politically powerful or connected -- and where all your private medical information is on a government database (don't worry: they promise never to use it against you!)
IT WILL BE AN AMERICA where "green" ideologues and other nanny-staters dictate what we drive, what we eat, home energy usage, the size of our houses, and even how many children we can have
IT WILL BE AN AMERICA where our major industries, crippled by government mandates, taxes, and regulations, end up becoming taxpayer-supported dinosaurs that can no longer compete in the global marketplace
IT WILL BE AN AMERICA where all employers will be forced to hire and promote not according to ability but according to race, gender, and ethnicity -- all in the name of "diversity"
IT WILL BE AN AMERICA where our once-great centers of finance, industry, culture, and innovation -- from New York to Silicon Valley -- will have gone to seed, while only Washington, D.C., and its environs prosper
IT WILL BE AN AMERICA, in short, where only politicians, government bureaucrats, and their favored constituencies are able to thrive -- and where the only "liberty" that remains is the government's unlimited freedom to control every aspect of your life
Funny thing happened on the way to the tax collector today! After the Democrats promised that there would be no new taxes on anyone making less than 250,000 dollars I couldn't convince:
The guy at the corner store that the new taxes couldn't be for me, I make only $30,000.
I also couldn't convince the gas station, or the licensing guy at city hall, or the utilities company, or my employer about the payroll tax he paid, or my insurance guy about the premium tax, or the guy raising the tolls on the New York expressway, or the guy at the hotel renting rooms, or the airline ticket sales person, or the guy who figured out my brothers severance pay, or the lady selling tickets at the amusement park, or the guy at the liquor store, or the...
All this and I haven’t even seen the price increases that the guys making 250,000 dollars a year is going to pass on to me. Gee it seems that I got bamboozled there really was a tax increase for me!
Frank, if your readers would like a comprehensive report on how they pay hidden taxes forward them to the Institute for Policy Inovations report titled
I P I CENTER for TAX ANALYSIS
http://www.ipi.org/ipi%5CIPIPublications.nsf/0/3F31DF6F0D040EE986256AB700630B84/$File/PR160-HiddenTax-FINAL.pdf?OpenElement
Everyone should get whatever health treatments they might have been putting off before you find yourself being denied treatments at the hands of a socialist health czar who has to ration health care, not based on medical need, but based on how productive you are to society. If you are old and retired, and no longer contribute taxes to drive the system, you will quietly die waiting 18 months, 2 years or even longer for life saving medication or tests.
Think I am making this up? Look to the world's two worst health care systems--United Kingdom and Canada. That is what these socialist Democrats want for you and I.
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