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Old 05-24-2005, 05:13 AM   #1
 
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Default The fallacy of "free market competition"

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Wisconsin's tax-supported health care program for the working poor spends millions of dollars each year covering the health costs of employees of some of the state's largest companies. In fact, more than 40% of those getting aid work for discount retailer Wal-Mart



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So, as long as you can get cheap CD's, everyone else gets to pay the difference anyway.
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Old 05-24-2005, 05:25 AM   #3
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So, as long as you can get cheap CD's, everyone else gets to pay the difference anyway.
Sounds like you guys need to dump BadgerCare. It's not the state's responsibility to pay for those who can't pay for themselves.
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So, as long as you can get cheap CD's, everyone else gets to pay the difference anyway.
Sounds like you guys need to dump BadgerCare. It's not the state's responsibility to pay for those who can't pay for themselves.
Aught, thats why Wisconsin is a tax hell !!!!! [:@][:@]
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Old 05-24-2005, 06:45 AM   #5
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Tennessee has tenncare which is like wisconsin state sponsored social health. Our governor has been trying to reduce it or get rid of it for 4 years but the court system will not let him. Activist judges stop every reduction and declare illegal or whatever. The people have voted to dump it, but the judicial system says no.
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Sounds like you guys need to dump BadgerCare. It's not the state's responsibility to pay for those who can't pay for themselves.

Yeah, but if it wasn't for the socialist give away we wouldn't have a wal mart on every open square inch. Badger care is why Wisco's health care costs are 50% more than any other midwestern state.


and as a side note, #2 on the list is Aurora -- thats AURORA HEALTHCARE, the largest insurer in the state. They build hospitals all over the place as a TIF district (taxpayers pay for it) then they hire only part time so they don't have to offer health insurance.

How ironic if not pathetic is that?
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Tennessee has tenncare which is like wisconsin state sponsored social health. Our governor has been trying to reduce it or get rid of it for 4 years but the court system will not let him.
I work with a guy from Tennessee, he told me all about Tenncare - from all he's told me it's a total financial disaster and costs the taxpayers a damn fortune.
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Oh yeah, and get this, "badgercare" was put in place in wisconsin by our former REPUBLICAN govenor Tax 'em Tommy Thompson.
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How ironic if not pathetic is that?

You no like socialism there, Tard?

Pathetic indeed. What is more pathetic is people like it, they want it. They cry and whine like a little bitch about high taxes while in the same breath out the other side of their mouths spews demands for "competitive products". Then they feed the machine, the monster consuming them, and the viscious loop runs its course.
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Yeah, but if it wasn't for the socialist give away we wouldn't have a wal mart on every open square inch.
Nah, you'd simply see them full of employees who aren't trying to raise a family on minimum wage. There will always be Wal-Marts because the demand is there, and there will always be employees because it's full of jobs that just about anyone can do.
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