The Big Problem
It seems that Republicans want everyone to have guns… and no
one to have health care.
GOP thought the sky would fall when Social Security was
passed in the 1930’s and again when Medicare was passed in the 1960’s. Back
then their god Ronald Regan ranted and raved that Medicare was socialist
program and that it would mean the end of America’s freedom. Well, the bad news for them is that Medicare
turned out just fine, just as the Affordable Care Act will.
The GOP seems to professionals at selling fear and hate.
It’s pretty obvious why, Romney decided to reverse his own
position to agree that the penalty is a tax.
This is the stupidest argument
for a presidential candidate to engage in while the country still suffers from
the 2008 Criminal Banking Activity. If
you can’t afford health insurance in 2014 once the exchanges and subsides are
available, I doubt you make enough money to file taxes to trigger a penalty.
In Romney’s state of Mass, most of the people have health
insurance, a whopping 95%. He should be
gloating about his pioneering health care reform and helping uninsured people
instead of beating up on himself.
What this proves is that Romney is a captive of the
Republican special interest who want to preserve the people as a piggy bank for
their donors—banks, insurance companies, oil, etc. He will go so far as to bash himself in a
desperate ploy to accomplish his goal, which is not by the way, to make
anyone’s life better but to prove only that he can be historic. Some people want to be president just to be
president – It’s an ego thing.
Republican don’t care if you don’t have insurance; they
don’t care if you suffer from an illness and die as a result. If your name
isn’t Jamie Dimon, they don’t care about you. Yet they succeed gloriously in
convincing their followers to vote against their own interests: If I can’t pay the bill out of my own social
security check, then I’ll just suffer the consequences.
The tax code is full of penalties and rewards, and there are
so many examples of parts of the population being compelled to buy something,
most notably those who choose to drive an automobile, as well a luxury taxes on
cigarettes, etc. I never agree with Limbaugh, but who really cares if it’s a
tax or penalty?
The Republican and Tea Party base will have you believe that
ACA is a “huge” tax hike on the middle class. Only those who hate the president
and would never have vote for him anyway will believe the mandate “fine” is outrageously
costly.
The truth of the matter is that if you don’t have insurance,
and don’t qualify for the exemptions or subsidies, only then will you have to
pay the “fine” or “tax” whatever you want to call it. It is not a huge “tax increase” on the middle
class.
But the biggest problem of all is if the GOP and Tea Party
try to run on “repeal” because then they will have to offer a credible
“replace” plan.
And they can’t.
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