For Democrats, healthcare is really all about the taxes
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 9:08AM Commentary by Kay B. Day
Pelosi celebrated Democrat wins in 2006. Ask yourself a question. Do you have it better now than you did 3 years ago?Democrats are salivating over reinventing American healthcare, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) grinning like a Cheshire cat for media, and fellow old timers like Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) claiming that reinventing American healthcare will reduce the deficit, as per the Congressional Budget Office. Both Pelosi and Dingell are American royalty—part of an elitist political class sustained by the government for more than one generation. Pelosi’s father was a career politician; so was Dingell’s.
Dingell took the low road in avoiding an important statement from the CBO. In a letter director Doug Elmendorf sent House Democrats, he cautioned Congress about his deficit reduction figures.
Dow Jones Newswires said, “CBO Director Doug Elmendorf, in a Thursday letter to House Democratic Chairmen, cautioned that his estimates are preliminary and ‘subject to substantial uncertainty.’”
In politics as in mortgage lending, the fine print can kill you.
Democrats are telling the truth about one thing—a high profile member of the party said, “We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move…” That sordid confession was made by none other than Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she delivered a diatribe in Pakistan lobbying for more taxation—in Pakistan. Other nations feel the pinch of the iconic ‘New World Order’ too.
As November arrived, so did a pronouncement by the Associated Press. Flex spending accounts will take a “hit.” Those tax free accounts many middle class workers rely on will have contributions capped at $2,500. That’s a feature of both the House and Senate bills. Bottom line--don't get sick.
The ‘wealthy’ will be taxed, so if you’re a small business person making $500,000 a year, prepare to get diced, sliced and reduced financially. It’s a Dem tradition.
Dingell, in an editorial for a major wire service, also claimed 45,000 people die each year because they don’t have health insurance. The study he cites has been widely criticized by conservative media and the figures come from the ‘Die Quickly Democrat’ and eager beaver fundraiser Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.)
We could be reminded of the fiasco that ensued as former President George W. Bush pushed for the Medicare Prescription Drug benefit in 2006. Unions opposed it. Dems called it a “prescription drug tax” even as they pushed people to enroll.
How fast can you say double-speak? Pelosi and Dingell are Washington insiders whose heritage rests on feeding at the public trough. Democrats have fed at the taxpayer trough since the federal income tax began. Reinventing healthcare will carry a heavy price, and in the end, we will confront a stark reality. It won’t be real reform and it won’t just be the wealthy who pay.
Clinton told the truth when she said, “We tax everything that moves and doesn’t move…” If you’re breathing, you fit in there somewhere. Prepare to get sliced, diced and taxed. It’s the Democrat way of doing business and urging more and more American wealth into federal coffers.
Democrats working on healthcare legislation aren’t going to deliver the reform most Americans want, need or expect. After all, the political class will still be able to purchase whatever healthcare they can afford, and their budget will be far more flexible than Main Street’s. The political class practices a private sort of capitalism, funded by the U.S. taxpayer. For Dems, it’s always about the taxes.
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For Democrats, EVERYTHING is about taxes - and more importantly - control.