” You have no basis to say that I’m not telling the truth.”
I am not saying you are lying willfully. I am saying that Medicare is subsidized and so is health insurance paid by employers. Do you know how that works? It is a government subsidy to you via your employer partly because it is deductible for companies but not individuals. You need to look at the FULLY LOADED COST of heath insurance. Apples to apples. The reason I pre-emptively bring up flood insurance is that most people use it as a counter to the other unfair insurance. I’m totally opposed to subsidies and the only way to get there is to have a universal tax that inpacts all. Fair Tax is one approach. It is not my favorite. It hides the tax. I say everybody writes a check - the same check. But the Fair Tax is much better than what we have now.
I still say letting retired people off the hock because they are living on savings reduces the pool of people that are impacted by federal taxes and that is a bad thing. Everybody should pay the same.
BTW, I am not a former Marine. It is just a dramatic example of why we need SOME federal taxes. I am a former member of the United States Navy. The Marines are a branch - of sorts.
Exactly! Even though they paid taxes when they earned it, more taxes when they put it in the bank and collected interest or were taxed when they earned capital gains or dividends. Even if they still pay taxes on their interest and dividends, it's not enough. We should just take it all, ungrateful old bastards /idiot rant off
Sound good?
Even better - my Dad was Navy. Served on the first USS Saratoga in 1940 until she was sunk.
Anyway I am still working and paying taxes so I’m not sure why I got into this discussion in the first place. It just irks me when people talk about senior citizens like they are just useless objects and a total drain on society when that is not the case at all.