Reply #11: How modest? [View All]

[Baby Snooks]

Why more tax? Why create a new program at all? Why not, indeed, just guarantee health insurance through the Medicare/Medicaid program for those who don't qualify for Medicaid but still cannot afford health insurance? Supplement the funding for it through a payroll deduction for enrollment. A small deduction. Maybe on a sliding scale. Politicians don't know the meaning of modest.

Why not cut some of the special interest budget items, the "earmarks," to fund the expansion of the existing program through the taxes we already pay? No offense but this is what turns a lot of people off of Democrats. Tax the rich, tax the middle class, and tax the poor. The rich don't care because their accountants find ways for them not to pay the taxes anyway, the middle class makes do, and the poor end up going hungry. And sometimes the poor end up homeless. Because they couldn't live on what was left after the taxes. Sometimes the middle class end up homeless as well. None of the candidates really talk about the growing problem of the homeless. Just the people who can pay more taxes and pay health insurance premiums. A growing number of people cannot pay the premiums. And forcing them to pay is going to do what? Only ensure that they have no health care at all.

We have had enough waste from the current administration and will be paying for it for many years to come. These plans will only add to the burden. We are told to live within our means. Why not tell the government to do the same? The government needs to finally pay for what it needs to pay for to provide for the citizens, including some level of guaranteed health care for Americans, and then give whatever is left to their buddies and brother-in-laws.

How about some equalization finally? Raise the "no tax" income levels for the poor, lower the tax percentages for the middle class, and raise the tax percentages for the rich. And tax, finally, the corporations. If for no other reason to make up for the taxes the CEOs of the corporations don't pay.