[Jim Robinson]

Which, of course, is the way it should be for health care (and everything else). The income tax needs to be abolished so people are free to save and invest and or do whatever they feel is appropriate or necessary with their own money. We'll never be free again until the income tax is gone. Go back to excise taxes the way the founders intended.

[EggsAckley]

I've had a medical savings account for about five years, and it's the most sensible insurance I've ever seen. It also causes people to stop and think before they over-utilize medical services. The money is theirs, and suddenly they don't want to waste it on a hangnail or some other pointless medical care.

[DumpsterDiver]

We'll never be free again until the income tax is gone."

What's your opinion on property taxes? It bugs me that no one can ever truly own property in the U.S. We're all perpetual renters, even after the mortgage is paid off.

I don't know, though, what sort of alternative tax could be used for funding schools, police, etc.

[Clara Lou]

I don't disagree with your post at all, but how to deal with A) those who never think past the ends of their noses and, therefore, never save; B) those who never earn enough to save?

[muawiyah]

This system is already in place for tens of millions of people including ALL employees of the federal government.

Anyone who is critical of it probably has a very difficult time unwrapping chewing gum to say nothing of chewing it while walking!

[xzins]

We'll never be free again until the income tax is gone

Amen. NRST.

It enslaves through manipulation of the basic necessities and desires of life.

It enslaves through vast power placed in the hands of faulty human beings.

In that I have no choice in the matter, it is an immoral taking in violation of "thou shalt not steal."