Posted on 07/16/2009 7:02:16 AM PDT by sdw2009
Congressional Democrats proposed new health care legislation yesterday that would penalize all but the smallest businesses up to 8% of payroll if they failed to provide "health insurance" for every employee...
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I guess when Obama said he was going to be the President for “Main Street”, he was referring to the bums, not the businesses.
Who is John Galt?
Chicago politics on a national scale - all to benefit the largest corporations and screw the middle class and entrepreneurs.
“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that is does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.
- Ayn Rand
John Galt is alive and well and spurring a new cottage industry of income reduction strategies among tax accountants
Excellent quote.
There was a time when you went to the doctor and paid him for his services. THERE WAS NO HEALTH INSURANCE!!!!
Tax rates in CANADA are now lower then in the US for business. Think about that.
What people don’t understand is that health care is a service. A doctor is a lot like an auto mechanic. They both perform services and you pay them for the services. There is nothing magical about “healthcare”.
A bunch of sissies just can’t stand the thought of being without health INSURANCE and the politicians learned how to tap into that irrational fear to smother us with socialism.
The arguments against universal health care:
1. It will cost too damn much, a lot more than the projected costs offered by government bureaucratic flunkies.
2. Health care will be rationed.
3. No incentives for doctors of all kinds to become doctors or to stay in the medical profession because salaries will be capped.
4. Enormous taxes for everybody in order to pay for universal health care.
5. Patients will wait months and years for care. This will especially hurt the elderly the most. The elderly will die waiting for care.
6. No guarantee illegal aliens will not be recipients of health care that American taxpayers (you and me) will pay through the nose for.
7. Government bureaucrats will determine who will receive care and who wont.
8. Health care will no longer be determined by doctors and their patients but be run by a nameless faceless government bureaucracy.
The arguments against universal health care:
1. It will cost too damn much, a lot more than the projected costs offered by government bureaucratic flunkies.
2. Health care will be rationed.
3. No incentives for doctors of all kinds to become doctors or to stay in the medical profession because salaries will be capped.
4. Enormous taxes for everybody in order to pay for universal health care.
5. Patients will wait months and years for care. This will especially hurt the elderly the most. The elderly will die waiting for care.
6. No guarantee illegal aliens will not be recipients of health care that American taxpayers (you and me) will pay through the nose for.
7. Government bureaucrats will determine who will receive care and who wont.
8. Health care will no longer be determined by doctors and their patients but be run by a nameless faceless government bureaucracy.
Does anyone know what the threshold is in a business’s “size” (I assume measured by number of employees) for this penalty to kick in? I’ll try and dig it up myself, but if anyone knows off the top of their heads, it’d save some trouble.
Excellent summary. I can add one more. “They tried it in Massachusetts and it’s a complete failure.” They’re dropping legal immigrants from the system because they’re looking at a 200 billion dollar deficit next year. Hawaii tried a program to provide healthacare for uninsured children. That went bankrupt because people who had insurance that would have otherwise qualified cancelled their health insurance to get the free state-provided insurance.
“Where is John Galt?”
The biggest reason to be against universal health care for me is that it provides entree for government interference into every corner of your life with the rationale that it is “costing all of us money.” So what you eat, how you play, how much you exercise, etc. suddenly becomes the turf of “everybody” or government Nurse Ratchets - especially when you include “mental health”. Reading blogs may be harmful to mental health, and so on. Frightening.
At least we will live in a free country, so stop whining. And pay your taxes or else you can’t be a good person.
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