Yea I am kidding. That is why my wife told me that so I could kid you guys. It is because Obama and the dems want more taxes. If you don't believe that you are missing something. Obama's tax cut? Smoke and mirrors. There is only ONE way this health care bill is going to work. There is only one way to get the programs they want. From CBS NEWS and I know you will believe them:
"Health insurance reform cannot add to our deficit over the next decade, and I mean it," Mr. Obama has said on numerous occasions.
Lawmakers are still grappling with ways to pay for the large cost of expanding health care to all, but they will use at least one accounting trick to make the legislation appear deficit-neutral over 10 years. As part of the proposed reform package, Democratic legislators want to reform projected Medicare payments to avert a 20 percent pay cut to doctors -- creating $245 billion in new costs that have not been accounted for.
Democrats argue it does not have to be paid for because they already exempted it from congressional "pay-as-you-go" rules, the AP reported.
Furthermore, while lawmakers focus on trying to create a bill that is deficit-neutral over 10 years, the longer-term costs may be even more difficult to predict. The Congressional Budget Office recently concluded that the legislation under consideration in both the House and Senate would not control costs.
"In the legislation that has been reported, we do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount," CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf told Congress last month. "And on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs."
The day after Elmendorf's testimony, the president proposed a scheme to establish an independent, non-partisan commission of doctors and other health experts to oversee the costs of Medicare. He said the plan would "bend the cost curve so we're not seeing huge health care inflation."
In a setback for Mr. Obama, however, the CBO subsequently said that creating such a commission would produce only about $2 billion in savings over 10 years -- a relatively small figure for a reform plan expected to cost around $1 trillion.
Mr. Obama has said that there will be savings from the efficiencies implemented into the nation's health care system through the legislation, but those savings are impossible for the CBO to score.
More taxes is how they will score it. All the things they keep telling you are just wishful thinking. How they are going to fund it. All the experts say the only way this bill is going to sustain itself is through taxes.
I didn't agree with Bush's stimulus. I certainly didn't with Obama's. A year later we are at 10 percent unemployment that was supposed to be fixed with the 784 billion dollar stimulus that no one can account for where all the money went. A third of it was spent and what happened to the rest of it? How will it be paid back? Taxes is how. But you go ahead and blame others' tax hikes that were republican's as though it makes it ok to do it now. Because we all know dems raise taxes too. You go ahead and think the dems don't want socialism. They do. And when someone adds 25 dollars to my check I DO notice so how about not telling me what I notice and don't? You don't know me at all. Not from the few post here you don't. Not much in the DNC or RNC I want to know. It is all propaganda anyway.
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