Posted on 07/01/2009 4:10:31 PM PDT by FromLori
Health reform can reduce the deficit, but not nearly enough to address the country's debt problem. Higher taxes and spending cuts will be needed.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The promise of health reform is to make care more accessible for everybody -- and to reduce the federal deficit by slowing the growth rate in costs.
But the promise of deficit reduction through health reform might be overstated.
Here's why: Even if reform works well, the cost savings will not be nearly enough to tackle the debt ogre breathing down Uncle Sam's neck.
"Ultimately, the long-term budget outlook will necessitate serious tax and spending changes," says the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which is led by tax and budget experts from the left and the right.
And "ultimately" really means ASAP, say some tax experts. That's because the financial and economic crises have exacerbated an already tough budget outlook.
"The key message is the future is now. The future has arrived," said William Gale, co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, in a Brookings video discussing a sobering report on the fiscal predicament that he coauthored with Alan Auerbach, director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.
The risk is not decades from now, but within the next 10 years. Should investors in U.S. Treasurys consider the country's growing debt load to be unacceptably high, they will start demanding to be paid higher interest rates on the debt they buy to compensate them for the risk they're assuming.
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Why have taxes at all... would be much more efficient to cut out the middleman (ie: businesses). Have 100% of salaries go to a new federal agency, with a czar of course. The govt can then take out everything it needs, and give us the pittance that remains. The only people then who need to file income taxes are the ones who expect to get paid.
Of Course, CNN, the Commie News Network. What else would they say, think and believe?
When tax revenues go down, tax rates go up!
Repeat!
OBLIVION!
“promise of deficit reduction through health reform might be overstated.’
Nominated for the understatement of the year award.
CNN is laying the groundwork to let the Obamessiah off the hook for his repeated claims that nobody making less than $250K would have their taxes raised.
That is going to be Obama’s “Read my lips” moment, and the media will help him get away with it.
Sorry CNN Barry PROMISED on many occasions that he would NOT RAISE TAXES on the middle class! Ain’t life a b!tch.
If only we could get this message across.
It's like saying that our health care system is bad. No,it's health INSURANCE that needs change. The care is the best in the world.
“Health reform can reduce the deficit...”
WTF?
But...but...the Chairman promised that 95 percent of Americans would have no tax increase. Don’t tell me he lied.
‘need’ has nothing to do with the entire issue, IMHO.
Well, not so humble.
Hey CNN,
F_CK YOU.
Not one f_cking penny.
“Why taxes will need to go up.”
...my response...
“Why Democrats and RINOs need to go bye bye”
Health reform can reduce the deficit...
Stopped reading right there.
Well I guess if they have not been watching Obambi's lips - they might!
For the amount of money that Zero’s pi**ing away already, the fed should have repealed the income tax for an entire year. Oh yeah, silly me, that might have stimulated the economy.
YEAH!!!! Let's stick it to those lousy ba$tard$ makeing over $250,000 per year!!! </sarcasm>
I trust that all of the knee-jerk ninnies that voted for FOTUS (Fraud of the United States)are taking this all in and having real doubts and buyers remorse. They screwed themselves and the country. As the old saying goes, elections have consequences.
I’m thinking about printing and selling a new bumper sticker. I DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM
You know, I think maybe we can refine that idea, and make it really work!
Hmmm... Maybe we need everyone to contribute whatever they can, for the betterment of the Nation and its residents (citizen is so restricting). And we need to make sure a certain level/standard of living is maintained.
I think I could summarize this new, wonderful plan up with a pretty slick little phrase:
From each according to their ability, to each according to their need
Yeah, that's what we need!
/sarc, because some people will never get it
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