[SheLion]

MA: Tax Alert.

Tax just smokers (again) to pay for everyone’s insurance?

Are Mass smoker's fed up yet?

[SheLion]

[Gabz]

If these Religious "leaders" are so concerned about the lack of coverage of their congregations, let them pay for it by giving up their tax exempt status and start paying taxes like all other businesses.

I'm sure that would more than cover the needs, and since they are so in favor of raising taxes on some people, they will be more than happy to carry their fair share. /sarcasm

[Madame Dufarge]

a church elder at Dorchester's Temple Salem Seventh Day Adventist Church

I was unaware until now that theft is an approved tenet of the Seventh Day Adventists.

[al baby]

Old Teddy style health care

[stylin19a]

Geeze...these people need to do some research...go on over to Tn. and see how TennCare is doin...

[atomic_dog]

How long before people start growing tobacco at home?

[CasearianDaoist]

This is a trial for 08. Watch hillary use this tactic to split the Christian vote. It may work. Be tween a McCain 3rd part and this sort of stuff, we could be in real trouble. that is why they havc to be called out into the open now.

[Mears]

OH MY GOD! I'M MAD AS HELL AND I WON'T TAKE IT ANYMORE.

CAN YOU BELIEVE THESE IDIOTS?

(Sorry for yelling but I can't control myself)

And this is from "The Big Dig" state---what a joke!

[AmericanChef]

What would they do if there weren't any smokers? Just goes to show that NO ONE wants smokers to quit.

[Jim Noble]

Massachusetts enacted mandatory universal health insurance in 1988.

Just one thing they forgot-THE MONEY.

So, it has existed as an unfunded "goal" for 17 years.

[muir_redwoods]

Capitalism distributes opportunity evenly

Socialism distributes poverty evenly

[Brilliant]

I'm in favor of this. Let MA be the guinea pig.

[balrog666]

...would require all but the smallest Massachusetts businesses to cover their workers.

Is there some minimum of coverage specified without regard to whatever it costs? Will the state act as the insurer of last resort? Will all the expensive cases get dumped on the state? Is the Pope Catholic?

[Bigfitz]

Mass Business's must love this proposal. I am sure they wont leave the gimme state in droves.

[ran15]

The only good thing about this is the socialists seem to finally be trying healthcare at the state level.. instead of forcing it nationally.

[Alter Kaker]

This is a good idea and something no conservative should be against. Let the states decide! Those of us who live in conservative areas don't want any outside liberals coming in and telling us how to run things -- lets afford those libs the same courtesy. Better they screw up MA than get this done on the Federal level and screw up the country. If they stay in MA, great. Complain when they come on down to Alabama.

[hershey]

We have to pay for medical care for illegals doing jobs Americans in MA don't want to do, hence the punish the smokers deal. This is coming for all of us, no matter what. If the feds think the One Hemisphere, open borders, travel freely within the hemisphere is still workable, let them ponder all the people who will trek north and south to the US for medical care they can't get at home. Not to mention welfare, free education, jobs, etc.. About the time the feds figure out that they aren't going back home to whatever country they came from, the states will be so far in the red, the feds will have to bail them out. Emergency rooms and hospitals closing left and right, well, with outsourcing, NAFTA and CAFTA sucking all those US jobs away, there aren't enough jobs left here to pay medical bills through insurance. Not and pay for all the illegals' medical problems, too. What's left? Uncle Sam. And close the borders.

[nothingnew]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.-- C. S. Lewis

I have updated my FMCDH (From My Cold Dead Hands) sign-off with the addition of (BITS).....Blood In The Streets, which I foresee coming soon, due to the enormous increase of the Marxist progressive movement being shoved down the throat of this failing REPUBLIC through the Judicial tyranny of fiat law, the passing of unconstitutional laws by the Legislative and Executive branches of our government and the enormous tax burden placed upon the average American to support unconstitutional programs put forth by Marxist ideology. I do not advocate revolution. I only think of what I foresee.

PUFF

FMCDH(BITS)

[Bullish]

We should just let New England and New York break away from the union and become part of Canada. Or they could just form a new country all together.

Just call it New Canada.

[mabelkitty]

This was the real goal of gay marriage.
Now all AIDS-infested homosexuals without insurance can marry in MA and get free healthcare to boot.

I must say they weren't very subtle about it.

This is what they want to do on a Federal level, but include social security benefits in the mix.