Posted on 10/26/2009 9:07:26 AM PDT by IbJensen
We are nominating Sen. Baucus' health care reform bill for the Pulitzer Prize — for fiction.
Like works of great fiction writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Conrad and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the story line of the Baucus bill is not what it seems and is in fact a clever subterfuge of what health care reform will mean for the American people.
Hiding behind this facade is another story about a massive power grab by the Washington political establishment.
The bill is loaded with fiction. To begin with, it purports to reduce the deficit. This is really an Enron-style scam with the bill's massive new taxes starting on day one and its dramatic new health care expenditures, which will far exceed the tax revenues, beginning in year four.
Hence its favorable score: 10 years of revenue, seven of expenditures. In the private sector, people go to jail for this type of accounting; in the U.S. Senate, they trumpet it as good news.
The Baucus bill claims to treat all Americans equitably, yet four states receive Medicaid exemptions — the federal government will pick up the state's share of Medicaid costs — for five years. That means taxpayers in 46 states will subsidize other states, including Nevada, so Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can bring home the bacon and get re-elected.
Sen. Chuck Schumer put in a little-noticed provision that exempts New Yorkers and taxpayers from some other states from the bill's tax on gold-plated insurance plans. The result: The rest of the nation will subsidize the health care of New Yorkers and a few others.
If you're lucky enough to live in one of the favored states, you win. If not, you lose. Guess how many of those states are blue and have Democratic senators up for re-election?
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Government action isn't (generally) justified on the basis of "morality" or "legitimacy," or even "consent of the governed." The government prevails over the public because the government has superior firepower, and is willing to use it in order to preserve itself.
The only problem with your argument is that the government’s “superior firepower” has a conscience. Please see OathKeepers.
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