Kerry Lied
Millions Died
Posted on 01/23/2007 4:45:40 PM PST by STARWISE
Edited on 01/23/2007 6:37:01 PM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]
Millions Died
"I suggest you read Bush's health insurance plan yourself and make up your own mind as to whether it is redistributing the wealth or not, because it it."
Do you have a link to the plan? If so, please post it...along with your own plans to solve our health insurance problems and the mounting health care costs and entitlement programs that are driving the small businessman out of business and the large corporate employers overseas!!
Tight game? We're supposedly the most powerful nation on earth and we let the third-world push us around, and it pisses me off.
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Posted on 03/22/2004 8:22:17 PM CST by Jim Robinson
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You've .. GOT .. to .. be .. kidding!!
Apparently, you didn't see it when the cameras caught the smirking, pissed Hitlery!
lmao.....yes he does!
ROFL!!!!! Priceless .. and true .. LOL
Amen!
Too bad your new term never took. I must admit to never having seen it before.
I disagree with the characterization of even tax treatment as "income redistribution". Why shouldn't every citizen who pays taxes get the same deduction, and what is "redistributing" about saying that a tax deduction will only be available for the first X-thousand dollars you spend on your health care insurance?
Most everything I buy for myself, I buy with post-tax dollars. When the government gives tax breaks, sure I'll use them, but they smack of social engineering, trying to bribe me into doing what THEY want.
For example, you can get a tax deduction for buying a hybrid care, but not for the full price, only for part of the cost of the car. And only the first 80,000 sold by each manufacturer, so they aren't encouraging people to OWN the cars so much as paying off each manufacturer when they get around to MAKING the cars, by making it easier for people to buy them.
But it's hardly income redistribution because the guy who buys a lexus hybrid gets a $3000 deduction on a $40,000 car, and the guy who buys a civic hybrid gets the same $3000 deduction on a $20,000 car.
So why is it "redistribution" if one person gets a $10,000 deduction for the $10,000 they pay for a bare-bones health insurance policy, and another person spends $20,000 of their money for a top-notch health insurance and gets to deduct $15,000 of that cost?
Let me illustrate another way. Suppose I pay $15,000 for insurance that includes dental, but doesn't cover braces. So I pay $6000 in after-tax dollars for the braces, which means I had to earn $9000 to pay or it after giving government their 33%.
Another person buys a $21,000 policy that fully covers braces. They only had to earn $6000 to pay for the braces, because their 6000 from an employer-sponsored health care benefit was pre-tax dollars.
Under the president's plan, both people will now get the SAME TAX BREAK. That's not "income redistribution", that's actually TAX FAIRNESS.
And I say this as someone who is quite likely to be paying taxes on my health care benefits.
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I have, but I don't recall that line. I thought it was new.
It's also part of Star Trek lore. Spock's Vulcan nictating menbranes saved his eyesight in an episode from Star Trek-TOS.
BTTT
*sigh* yeah. Dumb of me.
j"veritas is a patriot and has done more than anyone I know in regard to helping fight the good fight, so please take a few minutes to look into his work regarding recovered documents in Iraq and how we can use them to remain a conservative republic."
DocRock, I do believe I know this is the guy that is translating the arabic docs that were put on-line by the gov't. Good for him and bless him for doing it. However, this is a thread about the Prez's speech tonite, not the good acts of various Freepers. It appears to have been unfortunate for my having chosen his comment out of the hat for me to do my response to about Bush's "health insurance plan." Instead of responding to the idea, the response was to defense of jveritas. That's unfortunate, and appears to be the theme of tonite's thread, short on analysis, long on comments about people, Pelosi's eyes, who stood and who didn't, the facial looks some made, and therefore the speech itself and its contents got lost. That is, until the end, when all of the Bush (I'll say avid supporters this time) cheered and clapped and I maintain heard little of what he actually said. That's my take.
I have to tell you guys. The Democrats kissing John Warner's butt is completely overdone and I plan on calling his office and asking why he wants us to fail in Iraq.
They sure do love a RINO for their talking points!
For the SOTU, he is effectively playing the role of McCain...now that McCain has to hide his true colors for the Pandering Express.
She had the same look on hr face as she did last year
So flag, this is all you had to say in the beginning... with the link:
I suggest you read Bush's health insurance plan yourself and make up your own mind as to whether it is redistributing the wealth or not.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/healthcare/
Was that hard? It's called discussion and views. The derogatory comments aren't necessary.
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