Germany Raises Health Insurance Premiums
Jul 6, 2010 Political
Government run health care is the ultimate goal of Barack Hussein Obama (mmm mmm mmm) and his progressive base. They want cradle to grave dependence on government and government controlled health care will do just that.
Don’t worry, they tell us, the costs will come down and they will be able to afford it. Their idea of affording anything is to tax the producers in our society and redistribute that money to those who do not. What happens when there is not enough money? Easy, just tax the rich a little more.
Hell, they can afford it and who are they to decide how their money is spent? They have an obligation to take care of everyone else.
In Germany, the insurance premiums are going up to 15.5% of gross pay to cover a huge deficit in the state run health care system:
The measure is part of an overhaul of health care intended to plug an 11-billion euro ($13.8 billion) deficit in the public health-insurance system in 2011. It follows Cabinet agreement on June 29 to cuts in spending on drugs to reduce soaring costs to public health-insurance funds. Bloomberg
Is there any doubt that once the health care takeover kicks into full swing in 2011 we will run huge deficits? The government can’t even run a small $5 billion high risk program without discussing rationing and denial of care so what makes anyone think this country, which has shown absolute fiscal irresponsibility, will be able to actually run things on budget?
And what happens when the cost exceeds the budget? Tax the rich, of course. But the rich can’t pay for it all. They pay most of the taxes in this country and foot the bill for those who pay little or no taxes at all. Since the rich can’t afford it all, what will be next?
A national tax on our gross pay, just like in Germany. Once government is in the health care business it can decide how to pay for it and it will extort money from people. They already do it. Social Security and Medicare deductions from our gross pay are not voluntary. We have NO say in the matter so they just take the money.
They will also take money to pay for the health care system that is sure to have more gallons of red ink than gallons of oil in the Gulf.
But don’t worry, they have it covered.
With more of our money.
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Tags: germany, health care, lies, Obama, taxes
This Will Be America In The Near Future
Jun 2, 2010 Political
The Democrats forced their health care reform through against the will of the people. The lies they told about saving money have now been exposed as study after study, studies using the actual information and not the cherry picked items sent by the Democrats, shows that the law will cost much more than advertised and will not result in cost savings. Greater than 60% of Americans want the law repealed but their wishes will be ignored like they were when this law was jammed down their throats.
Make no mistake, this will cost a fortune and will lead to rationing of care and resources. The Canadians, long touted as the model we should emulate, are finding this out now as we proceed on the path they took. Despite what supporters say about how wonderful and cost effective the Canadian system is, the reality is that it is costing a fortune and there will be tough choices along the way.
Canada has seen a 6% increase in the cost of its system each year and it is spending more than it takes in to cover the costs. This is leading to new and increased taxes (look for that here), rationed care, more out of pocket expenses, and new methods to raise revenue as health care consumes about 40% of provincial budgets.
This is an unsustainable program and portends our future. We are behind them in establishing a socialist program for a reason but now that Obama and his Socialist Democrats have rammed this through we will be well on our way to increased taxes and another bloated, underfunded program that is poorly run.
When you give stuff away more people will get in line for it. If they do not have to pay they always want more.
But it will not be long before everyone has to pay, and pay a lot.
Just ask Canada, the model for Socialized medicine.
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Tags: budget buster, canada, cost over runs, estimates, health care, lies, socialized medicine, taxes
How Much More Should The Rich Pay
May 29, 2010 Political
Joe Biden said that people who did not pay their fair share were unpatriotic. He told us it was time for everyone to pay their fair share. What he meant to say was that the wealthy, the ones who pay most of the federal taxes in this country, had to pay more while 47% of wage earners paid no federal taxes. I want to ensure that I point out that it is federal taxes because even though we discuss federal officials and their desire for more taxes to the federal government there are still people who are a little slow and will tell me that all wage earners pay Social Security or some moronic thing.
Anyway, Hillary Clinton is on the bandwagon again and she said the rich do not pay enough taxes. There are quite a few wealthy liberals who agree with her but strangely enough, none of them write checks to the government for the increase they think they should pay.
Make no mistake about this. Any citizen can write a check for any amount (that he can afford) to the Treasury in order to pay off the debt. If liberals think they should pay more in taxes then they can write a check to pay more. None of them do. You know that none of them do because if they did they would brag about it and it would run nonstop on the state run media. None of them have sent extra money and they all look for ways to reduce their tax burdens.
They want the rich to pay more but only the other rich people.
Clinton is a liberal moron (though she would have been better than Obama) and this is the creed that liberal morons live by. Tax the rich because even though they pay most of the federal taxes in this country they do not pay enough to satisfy the overlords in DC.
If you are a rich person and you agree with Clinton then take out your checkbook and write a hefty check to the Treasury. If you are a rich person who agrees with her and you do not do this then you are a hypocrite and need to stop calling for higher taxes because you really don’t want them.
If you are rich and don’t agree with Clinton then stop donating your money to any of the morons in DC. Especially ignore the requests of the liberals who want to raise your taxes.
It is time to stop feeding the beast.
And it is time for Hillary to write a big check to the Treasury.
As an aside, has she paid off her campaign debt yet? She is begging for others to pay her debt and she has over 100 million dollars in the bank. Isn’t amazing how she always wants to use someone else’s money?
Of course, her hubby made a deal with Obama to help with the cover-up of the Sestak bribe so maybe her debt will magically disappear.
Bill did not get involved for free…
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Tags: campaign, Clinton, liberals, lies, Obama, sestak, taxes, treasury
I Thought Taxes Paid For This
May 19, 2010 Political
The third largest school district in Colorado is asking parents to pay for their children to ride the school buses to school. The cost would be $1.00 per day, per child. The buses would have GPS systems and the children would have electronic devices or cards that get read when they ride the bus. Evidently the district is having trouble making ends meet.
But don’t taxes already pay for school bus service? The taxing authority for this district collects taxes from all wage earning residents in order to pay for the school system so what makes it right to charge the riders additional money to get to school?
If we collect taxes for a service how is it right to then charge for the service? Suppose the school system did not have enough money to pay for education. Would it then be OK for the district to charge families to send their children to school? What if there is not enough money to pay to fix the roads. Can they then add a fee to each driver’s license renewal to pay for the road repairs?
If government is not capable of collecting taxes and spending the money efficiently and must resort to charging additional money for services the taxes are supposed to provide then it is time to rethink the way we allow government to do business.
Allowing government to charge additional money for services it provides could end up being a slippery slope where people are charged for countless items that they already pay for as part of the oppressive tax scheme that has evolved in this country.
This kind of nonsense is what gave birth to the TEA Party movement.
Source:
Denver Post
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Tags: colorado, extra charges, oppressive taxation, school buses, taxes
Wealthy Clintons Want You To Pay The Bill
May 13, 2010 Political
As anyone who reads this blog knows, I am not a fan of taxing the rich more to pay our bills. The wealthy in this country pay most of the bills and suffer the biggest burden for the spending of our government while 47% of wage earners pay no federal income taxes and many of those get back money they never paid in (redistribution of wealth). Progressives are big on having the rich pay the bills and they work hard every day to raise taxes on the wealthy but only on the wealthy who are not politicians. The political class thinks the taxpayer should foot the bills for them as well.
Case in point, Bill and Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton ran for the presidency in 2008 and she lost to Barack Obama. Clinton amassed a lot of debt during that time and has yet to pay all of it off. She still owes just over three-quarters of a million dollars. The Clintons have over 100 million dollars and Bill earns at least $250,000 each time he gives a speech but they have decided that they should not write the check for her debt even though it would not dent their personal fortune. Hillary’s campaign still has over 600 thousand dollars in the bank so she could settle a large part of this debt with money that was already donated (and pay the rest out of her personal fortune) but the Clintons do not want to do it that way.
By 2007, seven years after leaving the White House, the Clintons had earned a combined $109 million (£73 million) through speaking engagements and bestselling memoirs. Even so, apparently they would prefer American voters to settle Mrs Clinton’s remaining $771,000 debt rather than paying it themselves. Times Online UK
Instead, they want voters to pay off the debt for them. Bill Clinton is offering a day with him in New York to a person selected from those who donate to settle Hillary’s debt. People are urged to donate as little as $5 to get a chance to be picked to spend the day with Bill. This is reportedly the second time such an offer has been made (I guess he is not as hot a commodity as he thought) as Bill works to get others to pay his debt.
This is typical of progressives. They love to spend money but they do not like to pay the bills with their own money. They would rather get money from others to pay their bills.
When Bill was president and, later, Hillary a Senator, they loved taxes and making the rich pay. Bill Clinton said he did not feel he was taxed enough (though he has not sent more money to the government, which he could do) and he and his wife love the idea of taxing the rich to pay the bills. They just don’t want rich people to have to pay the bills if they are the rich people in question.
I have a suggestion for the Clintons that would erase their campaign debt.
Take the money the campaign has in the bank and add it to enough of your personal wealth to pay the bill. Then write a check to pay it off.
You get the responsibility of paying your own bills, your creditors get their money, and the people do not foot the bill for what you spent.
Progressives love to spend other people’s money.
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