Posted on 12/24/2014 6:05:50 AM PST by LeoMcNeil
That would be "ayut", Flatlander. Haha
>>That would be “ayut”, Flatlander. Haha
LOL
If Congress can cut the tax to a penny they can also increase the tax to 100% of income.
Per Capita: VT: $42,994 US: $42,693
Median: VT: $52,977 US: $51,371
This is not a “poor” state and it can’t afford free healthcare.
Welfare recipients in Vermont make as much as the average worker. Seriously.
>>Oh, yes. My pockets won’t be picked. I’m retired and have minimized my tax exposure very well, thank you. I laugh at all you LIBs.
LOL. Medicare! The wealthy picking the pockets of the working class.
>>Welfare recipients in Vermont make as much as the average worker. Seriously.
I would hope so! You do have an openly-socialist Senator (which I applaud his honesty since he’s the only socialist in Congress who is man enough to admit it).
So, the takeaway is that the state feels that it can afford socialist benefits for the non-working, but can’t afford socialist benefits for the working people. When Obama says that he wants to help “working families”, he is saying the exact same thing.
Working-class Democrats need to wake up to this reality....and soon!
Easy solution; Barrow the money and kick the can down the road.
Exactly...when did “affordability” ever come into the equation. I am not familiar with this case, and I would never care about a stupid bunch of socialists until they start taking up arms, but sounds like they’re punting it down the road as to try to affix blame to someone else (republicans).
This can’t be right, how can it increase state costs when they told us it was free?
/sarcasm
A shame really. I was really hoping they’d do it and go broke to prove once and for all to the rest of the cretins out there that THIS DOES NOT WORK!
In a state of 600,000 we could have absorbed the failure.
If California tries this we are all in deep doo-doo.
I live next door in NH. So, I will try to answer your question. First of all, they were born there. Secondly, it really is a beautiful state. It is all mountains & river valleys. It is still very rural in comparison to its neighbors. Up until recently there were more cows in VT than people. Like a lot of blue states, the people in the more rural areas are out numbered by the liberals in the cities and college towns. This is the case with VT too. All the liberals live in Burlington. The salt of the earth dairy farmers are conservative. However, they have been outnumbered by the transplants from New York. Every bed & breakfast in VT is owned by some former New Yorker. Many were people that got rich in the financial business and then semi retired to VT to escape the rat race. Unfortunately, they brought their liberal politics with them.
The other Vermonter is your basic Hippie that moved there in the 1960’s. Literally people like Ben and Jerry. Hippies moved to VT in the 1960’s and lived in communes. Again, many were transplants from NY, Mass and other states. Now their kids have been indoctrinated in socialism since they were in diapers.
Maybe the famous Vermont 1%’er, Howard Dean, can contribute just half of his obscene personal fortune to help it. After all, he’s a committed socialist, right? Equality for everyone, right, Howard?
That plan works very well in big Dem electoral vote states like Cal, NY, and Ill.
But when you've got a puny 3 evs, you aren't gonna be a very big hog at the trough.
That is easy to fix, you have the 50% who work pay for the 50% who do not and then only the ones who do not work get healthcare!
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