Heh.
Don’t ask me to pay for what other people refuse to give up.
OK but that wasn't exactly my point.
My point is, we are f***ed if the Congress enacts programs but not the revenue to pay for them.
When Medicare went tits up in 1986, Reagan, Tip O'Neill, and Bob Dole reached the Grand Compromise that has governed our politics (and ruined our nation) ever since then - The Republicans could run on tax cuts, the Democrats could run on more spending, and the government would borrow money or print it as necessary to protect both interests.
Universal Health Care is so big that it will destroy this arrangement.