No to Medicaid for the middle class

Townhall.com ^ | July 23, 2007 | Star Parker

[mission9]

No, american educated physicians are verbotten. They will just allow more pakistan and hindu doctors in.

[calex59]

Or to put it another way: Name any product or service that is delivered in a competitive free market that has not gotten cheaper over time.

Gasoline. But one reason why it has not gotten cheaper is because of the taxes levied on it and government regulations regarding its production and delivery. So it's debatable whether it's actually delivered in a free market.

You missed the key point: A product or service delivered in a FREE markey. Gasoline is not sold in a free market but in a market regulated by the government.

[calex59]

35 billion from a cigarette tax of $0.61. Hmmm. So if we are to raise this amount in five years, and there are about 300 million Americans, then we all must smoke about a pack a week to keep the kids healthy (those who are already smokers would need to add this to what they already smoke). If we raise the money in one year, then we must smoke about three packs per week. Given the restrictions on where we can smoke and who cannot purchase tobacco, this may be difficult. I’d have to smoke my three packs almost entirely on the weekends (the ones I don’t have to fly on), and frankly kids or no I don’t think I could do it.

The government will simply pass a law that we all have to BUY that many cigarettes per week for each adult. We won't be allowed to smoke them, in fact we will be required NOT to smoke them, we just have to buy them to raise the tax money for this and other social programs and then we have to turn them in as a hazardous substance and pay a tax for that too. Don't worry, the Rinos and the dems have it all figured out. /SAR

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Reagan was right when he said it was scary when someone from the Government came and said “I am from the Government and I am here to help.”