(Obamaville Democrat) Schakowsky: Americans don't deserve to keep all of their money

Well I am late to this thread, but look, our country and our Constitution was not designed the way this lady thinks. We do not “agree” to do things. We send out representatives to Congress and a small block of states can more or less hold a large number of states hostage to projects and programs they don’t want or need.

The Brandeis method of allowing states the option to experiment with democracy is the correct way. If Mass wants free health care, let them have it! It could work for them because they only had 6% uninsured anyway when they started. In California with almost 20% uninsured it is not workable. We need other kinds of reforms.

I would like to boil it back down to the essences here. The Jobs program Obama pushed is a good “teaching point” for my theory. I am an employer. I hire a guy and agree to pay him $25 an hour. How is it that when I agree to pay %25 an hour I end up paying more like $32? Because I take on 7.5% SS tax, 1.5% Medicare tax, and other stuff. I say forget that. Strip the employee co-pay stuff out completely. If my deal is to pay $25 an hour, that is my deal. All “taxes” should come from the employers end. I say this not to be cold hearted, but because I believe this will be a way to show everyone, employers and employees, how the system is wasteful and rigged in many ways. If the guy who was promised $25 an hour finds out he is only taking home $17, he gets pissed! And he will want to reduce taxes, and reform medicare and SS. Right now too much of it is hidden from him.

So while I oppose Obama’s Jobs bill, I think the GOP could try to pocket the concessions they like. Take the 3% SS rebate Obama promised and make it a 7.5% rebate. Take it all out. They could try to force the employee to eat it but that would be a new tax (sort of) and not be good political strategy. However, simply removing the employee matching contributions would be a big boon to employers and, ultimately, very hard to bring back in a a year or two once it has gone away. Politically impossible, but worth an effort.

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