Posted on 11/14/2010 4:14:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says the only way the U.S. will get its debt crisis under control is by the use of "death panels" and a national sales tax.
The national sales tax, referred to as VAT (value-added tax) and widely used by governments across Europe, will help cut the U.S deficit, Krugman argues.
Krugman made his comments on ABC's This Week with Christiane Amanpour during a roundtable discussion about the economy and the recent findings of the U.S. Debt Reduction Commission.
Here's the key excerpt:
"Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It's going to be that we're actually going to take Medicare under control, and we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it's not going to happen now."
The Obama healthcare plan passed by Congress in 2010 includes government-run healthcare committees with sweeping powers, including the power to engage in competitive pricing and cost analysis, a system used by Britain that has led to rationing of medical care for the elderly.
Critics of the Obama plan, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, quickly dubbed the committees "death panels," saying government agencies would decide who would live and who would die. Supporters of the Obama health plan dismissed such suggestions as nonsense.
Krugman apparently thinks otherwise, and suggests that such death panels could be one way the federal government will be able to deal with soaring medical costs under control as the Baby Boomers enter retirement.(continued)
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Well...I was going to mention the things you said...but...I thought I might get attacked here....LOL.
Well...I was going to mention the things you said...but...I thought I might get attacked here....LOL. I go to the doc ONCE a year for a checkup and to renew my levo and bio-id compounded hormones (knock on wood)....I’ve got friends who are at the docs at least once a quarter....and I do what YOU mentioned....supplements, exercise, etc....(I’m 59)
“VAT and Death Panels for Politicians They are useless and have never served any purpose so lets get rid of them.”
Do you realize how many people will agree with that statement?
A VAT is NOT a national sales tax, it is even worse. A sales tax takes place at the sale of the finished product, a VAT takes place at EVERY STAGE OF PRODUCTION...a great way to obliterate what manufacturing we have left.
I'm not in favor of killing off any group of people, but Krugman is correct, if all the progressives/liberals were killed off the nation would quickly recover from the debt crisis.
I'm not in favor of killing off any group of people, but Krugman is correct, if all the progressives/liberals were killed off the nation would quickly recover from the debt crisis.
Here’s a death panel idea for you, Kruggie - how about all the freeloaders that have been living off other people’s wages for the last 45 years just drop dead. No more leeches, no more deficit. No additional taxes necessary.
Fortunately, Ayers won't get to pick the 25 million. Hint - they'll more than likely be people that voted for "change".
Uh ... Yes, We Are.
The new paradigm is activist conservative small business owners and supporters.
We Are Legion.
you can betcha that the unions and the ruling class will be exempt....like they are now in most things...
Billy Ayers said that as many 25 million would have to be killed.
That was when the population of the US was less than half of what it is today. I would imagine were talking 3 times that number with inflation.
I only wish I was being sarcastic.
But the “sarcastic” might be among the first targeted for extinction under Krugmancare.
This guy is an A-hole of mega proportions. Nobel prize for economics? Figures!
(Oh. Thats what Obama meant by shovel-ready?)
Thank you for that. I’m glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read it. It was awesome!
>> The liberal solution to every problem is higher taxes and death.
Ironic both are unavoidable.
Isn’t it worth to kill off people so they can get good health care?
liberals have an obsession with death.
Zenith Press Association
August 15, 2018
New York City
Former New York Times op-ed writer, economist and pundit, Paul Krugman, died today of complications from an infected ingrown toenail. Mr. Krugman, who was born in 1953, had just celebrated his 65th birthday.
Unfortunately, under the onerous provisions of the 2010 Universal Health Care Act, passed in the last year of the truncated Obama Administration, over half of the countrys physicians have abandoned the practice of medicine and care of patients. Most retired, cycled into pure research or found other occupations. Consequently, the increased wait times for patients to see a doctor for even the most serious conditions in some cases up to 36 months can run to 72 months for relatively minor health problems.
A family member who wished to remain anonymous lest she be put on the Do Not Treat List at the Department of Death and Inhuman Services — declared that if his infection had been treated more promptly, Mr. Krugman, who was in otherwise good health, would have survived. Unfortunately, Mr. Krugman was over the cut-off age of 60 when the infection struck. Patients over 60 are listed on the Non-Critical Condition List, throwing them into the 72 month wait category.
Under the newly enacted Food Conservation and Recycling Act, his body was taken immediately to the Roosevelt Island Soylent Green processing facility.
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(RAB/Zenith News Service Correspondent)
I sort of have to give credit to Rush about the “shovel-ready” term, but sometimes I take credit for stuff Rush says.
Just as Dims advocate higher taxes for everybody instead of simply donating their own money towards reducing the national debt, Dims advocate death panels for everybody instead of just committing suicide themselves. Silly buggers.
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