With spending at nearly 25 percent of GDP and headed for more than 40 percent of national output, according to the liberal Progressive Policy Institute, how will the Democrats pay for it all?
The evidence points toward the way big-government, slow-growth Europe does it: the value added tax.
Working as a sales tax that you don’t get to see on your receipt, the VAT has proven to be a brutally efficient money machine in other countries. Maybe that’s why Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi last month told Charlie Rose that a VAT was “on the table” as a solution to America’s fiscal liabilities.
The Senate bill’s “fee” on medical devices operates much like a VAT, and could end up being the model for future adoption of an unprecedented VAT on all goods and services in the United States. SOURCE
Monthly Archives: November 2009
So You Want Government Run Health Care, Do You!
Dozens of patients died needlessly as a result of filthy conditions in an NHS hospital, a shocking report said last night.
Appalling nursing care in Basildon University Hospital contributed to a mortality rate that was more than a third higher than the national average.
At least 70 people may have died who should have been saved.
It is the latest example of patients paying the ultimate price for Labour’s failure to stamp out Third World conditions in the NHS – despite trebling taxpayer funding over the past decade. SOURCE
This is a shame and the liberals in America is wanting this same kind of health care! To get the full picture you need to go read the story at the source! What do you think, still want government-run health care after reading this from the UK?
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(1) Is it really better than nothing?
(2) Geraldo Rivera Race Baiting In Overdrive
Older Americans crowding soup kitchens
Older Americans who were raised on stories of the Great Depression and acquired lifelong habits of thrift now find themselves crowding soup kitchens and food pantries in greater numbers for the first time after seeing retirement funds, second jobs and nest eggs wiped out by recession.
“What we see in line is lots of gray hair, lots of walkers,” said Marti Forman, CEO of The Cooperative Feeding Program in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
The help is crucial for many fixed-income seniors, who can’t always keep up with rising food prices. SOURCE
How can Obama walk around laughing from ear to ear giving taxpayer money to his big campaign donation supporters while allowing older Americans to beg for food? Not only is he paying the people who supported him for president he’s also traveling around the World spending money at a faster rate than any president before him. Having big parties at the White House while these older Americans are crying for help. If the Obama government health care gets passed it will also cut billions of dollars from medicare/Medicaid that provides these same Older Americans with needed treatment and equipment such as motor chairs and other things that make their lives a little better. Obama and the democrats are doing the same thing they accused President Bush of, giving to the BIG COMPANIES and to the Rich that supported him in the campaign! Obama is a little man with a big ego and could care less about the elder and the poor. How can you diehard Obama fans support him when he only cares for himself? I know, I know that you liberals aren’t going to answer that question because it shames you!
