I’m glad Free Republic posters did the leg work on this story that the MSM wasn’t willing to do. This is an important aspect of any public discussion about government health insurance based on income: There are a lot of people who can manipulate the income they show. And the rest of us who cannot manipulate our incomes will have to pay more than our share because we will subsidize people who may well be better off than we are.
Asset tests are very difficult to incorporate. It costs a lot of money to check on people. Hillary Clinton is running around in a bus she calls her “Middle Class Express” - politicians want to pander to middle class people; they don’t want to make them have to show assets and otherwise be treated like the poor.
But the flip side is that without an asset test, you have people like the Frosts, enjoying a standard of living that anyone else would need a $200,000 income (at least) for and the money to live like that comes from . . . ??? where? The Frost parents are unwilling to sacrifice any aspect of that lifestyle, not the cars, not the house, not the self-employment. But they are not going to have health insurance unless someone else pays for it.
The reporters just accept it that the children are going to a very posh private school on “scholarships.” Does it make sense that a private school is raiding Baltimore public schools of middle class white children by giving them virtually full scholarships? No reporter with integrity would repeat that “scholarships” business without seeing documentation.
Great post.
First, I wasn’t aware that Hillary had a bus she calls “the Middle Class Express” - that’s amusing. Hillary seems to excel at patronizing the “little people”.
IMHO, if a family promotes itself as the dem poster child for government handouts, be prepared for scrutiny. The Baltimore Sun did originally ask for a copy of a tax return, but the Frosts’ refused. The Sun then dropped that part of the ongoing storyline, and as you’ve pointed out, did not provide documentation about some of the other statements made by the Frost family. Everyone makes choices, and to pretend that these choices are somehow limited or nonexistent is the true lie and manipulation.
What can I say, Baltimore is a democratic, corrupt city. Pelosi is from Baltimore. Her brother and father were both Mayor of Baltimore. The D’Allesandro family goes waaaay back.