Posted on 10/26/2015 3:32:52 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Colorado took a brave, or perhaps foolish depending on your perspective, leap forward by legalizing recreational marijuana a few years ago. For the states encore, it may take a stab at a single-payer healthcare plan. Proponents of ColoradoCare collected 156,000 signatures, well in excess of whats needed to create a ballot initiative for November 2016.
Such a plan would replace not only the Obamacare exchanges, but also commercial insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid. Everything would be wrapped into one state-run insurance plan. Proponents say it wont be government-run healthcare but instead administered by an elected 21-member board. How exactly is an elected insurance board member different from an elected government official?
Money would be saved by cutting down administrative costs. Isnt that what we are always told. But how would it be paid for? Thats easy, With a 10 percent premium tax on payrolls or other income. So what would ColoradoCare cost? Almost $25 billion annually, the same as the current state budget. Since healthcare costs are already part of the existing budget, ColoradoCare wouldnt exactly double the budget, but would come close. Hence the need for an additional 10 percent payroll premium tax, two thirds paid by the employer, one third paid by the employee. This is on top of existing federal and state taxes. Rocky Mountain high taxes. . .
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In my opinion this has no chance of passing.
If it does, I am moving to Wyoming.
The way I understand it Colorado has the Tabor amendment which limits tax increases. How can this run around that?
Tax increases must be put to the voters. There aren’t limits per se as long as the voters approve the increase. The government loves to get around the “tax” voter requirement by calling items “fees”. I saw a lot of sheeple coming out of the local post office where the petitions were being signed. I sat reading my mail for 20 minutes with the window down, and not one person asked the petitioner how this would be paid for. They just signed away. I live in a predominantly “conservative” town. Sad that people felt so compelled to sign their name to something without even a pause.
If a majority votes for it, then they deserve what they get. Personally? I think the States should be allowed to experiment with this sort of stuff if the voters want it. I’d oppose it of course, but maybe a few failures will dissuade the rest of us from doing the same.
What I really oppose is violating the US Constitution to pull these socialist schemes on the entire United States.
Any tax increase would have to be on the ballot, the voters have to directly approve. There's no way it would pass. And it isn't "Colorado" that's wanting to go to this system, it's 156,000 morons in Colorado who signed the petition to get it on the ballot (in other words, about 5% of eligible voters).
It's just Boulder people and a few nuts in Denver blowing smoke (haha, get it?)
Somebody dropped an insanity virus into this nations water supply a few years ago and its working its magic.
At least it would stop people from moving here. It seems everyone I meet has lived here less than six months. So I guess there’s that.
You underestimate people’s willingness to go for “free.”
I see it passing due to the Santa Claus halo.
Every one likes “free stuff.”
If it doesn’t pass, I will be surprised.
The plan is this: get them all high by granting a “tax holiday” on Marijuana on Voting Day, then let them have their ballots.
That’s all it takes to get on a ballot? Democracy is nuts.
What have they been smoking?
I don’t know. They have a ton of money in the state due to MJ. They probably could give huge refunds to every person living in Colorado from the budget surplus. I guess they’d rather do this.
LOL!
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