Posted on 11/20/2009 7:05:57 PM PST by truthfinder9
Anxious to avoid raising taxes too much to pay for their healthcare proposals, the Obama administration and its congressional allies hit on a great new idea: Make the states raise their taxes to fund the program instead.
Both the House and the Senate bills require that states cover a larger percentage of their people under Medicaid — a joint state and federally funded program. The idea was to force the states to raise their taxes to cover a big part of the healthcare bill for treating poor people.
Since the Feds simply can charge any increase in spending to their already overdrawn bank account, but the states have to balance their budgets, the increased state spending for Medicaid will cause sharp increases in state taxes.
And the governors will get the blame — not Obama and not Congress.
The House bill requires states to give Medicaid to those whose incomes are less than 150 percent of the poverty level while the Senate requires coverage up to 125 percent. For most states, this is a hefty increase.
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get ready to learn a new word...
hyper-inflation!!
Surely his little buddy Gov. Patterson in NY state wouldn’t mind raising taxes in support of ObamaCare now. Just ask Gov. Corzine how that’s worked out for him!
NO WAY. State taxes going up is impossible. Next you’re gonna try to tell me WWF wrestling is fake.
Uh.....I think there are some states that will NOT abide by the FEDS screwing around with them like this anymore.....I HOPE!
These leftists are way out of control-—off on a wild night’s bender gone mad. Let’s bring them to their senses and out of our lives in 2010!
Good luck on collecting those taxes. No one will have a job to pay them, they way things are going.
Hike them all you want loosers!
Actually this is the way this is suppose to work and in turn the states can, should, and will say no way (State rights). The federal government was supposed to be supported by the states financially and the Federal government was never suppose to tax the citizens. So in a way I am 100% for this. Of course this means everything else the fed has built must come down also.
If one state resists, I think other states will follow. It could quickly create a crisis — which I would love to see. The federal government needs to be rebuilt: what we have now is just toxic.
The Tennessee Gov has already stated taxes will rise to cover the unemployment benefits. As Obama forces states to comply they must raise taxes.
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