Dems Want "Rich" to Pay For Healthcare

[falcon]

Yep, the far left Democrats in congress want the tax the socks off "the rich" to pay for their healthcare plan. They would start with folks making over $350,000 and when that did not bring in enough cash they would lower the bar.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090710/..._care_overhaul

Democrats on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee agreed to a new surtax that would start with households making $350,000 a year and begin in 2011, said the committee's chairman, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.

It would raise some $540 billion over 10 years, about half the cost of Obama's ambitious plan to reshape the nation's health care system and provide care to the 50 million uninsured.
However, lawmakers could not provide an exact price tag of the overall bill.

[Fieldmouse]

Making over 350k per year doesn't mean your rich, just means your having a great year.

[Centauri]

That is their answer to everything. "Tax the rich, they don't need the money! Tax the rich, because success is not worth it! Tax the rich, and I'm not a socialist!

[James B]

Thats damn rich to me. Or maybe a good decade.

[FlDeerman]

Just look how well it's worked for California,soon that will be all of America.

[nodog]

"Take heed therefore how you hear: for whoever has, to him shall be given; and whoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have."

Ever notice how the wealthy are potrayed, many things are beneath them and they refuse to even hear about it. It seems to be a never ending cycle. The cycle of thunder an lightening leading to a storm is the plain and simple truth yet the wealthy will refuse to give it the time of day even though it just flashed in their eyes and rang in their ears.

The peopel have little left to give so the wealthy are feeding on the wealthy. This is not a news flash.

We're dead lost and someone asks us how we got here? Our answer is "I don't know" to which the questioner says "they all say that". Where's that moral compass when you need it? Sure would save a whole lot of trouble for everyone.

[Alsatian]

Originally Posted by nodog

"Take heed therefore how you hear: for whoever has, to him shall be given; and whoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have."

Ever notice how the wealthy are potrayed, many things are beneath them and they refuse to even hear about it. It seems to be a never ending cycle. The cycle of thunder an lightening leading to a storm is the plain and simple truth yet the wealthy will refuse to give it the time of day even though it just flashed in their eyes and rang in their ears.

The peopel have little left to give so the wealthy are feeding on the wealthy. This is not a news flash.

We're dead lost and someone asks us how we got here? Our answer is "I don't know" to which the questioner says "they all say that". Where's that moral compass when you need it? Sure would save a whole lot of trouble for everyone.

Whew! I don't know what that is supposed to mean. Can you speak friggin' English and make your point directlly? Are you saying the rich are immoral? Are more rich people immoral than poor people, or is it simply that poor people are justified in being immoral, or is it simply that poor people have an excuse for being immoral?

We're lost? What does that mean? We're not lost in my community. The kids go to school, and good parents encourage their children to avoid drugs and to study hard. Many children do. Some do not. The kids go on to college, get a good education, and go on to live productive lives -- marrying, having children, taking care of their children, starting businesses, making jobs for others. What's wrong with that?

I don't get this portrayal of life in the United States today as if we are in some kind of black hole. That is total BS. You need to have a little perspective, my man. How about goin' back and working in Lowell, Massachusetts in the textile mills say about 1930. Or how about working in the textile mills in Macon Georgia in about 1930. How about the health care you would get in about 1960. A little tightness in your chest, hard to breath. You're gonna die, brother, be you white or be you black, be you rich or be you poor. Today, even the poor man gets to have open heart surgery and get his triple bypas operation to prolong his life anouther 10 years, 20 years, notwithstanding his heavy smoking habits.

The predominant root cause of a person's situation in life in the United States today is his/her own personal choices. If you make the right choices, you can prosper and live a very good life. Even when you make minor mistakes but keep on trying you can do pretty well.

[Doe Dumper]

Now that was a helluva post Al!!