Why This Court Ruling Leads us to Greece
Today seemed like a good time to reprint a blog I wrote on September 30, 2013.
On March 9, 2010, at a
meeting of the Legislative Conference of the National Association of Counties,
Nancy Pelosi uttered the stupidest, laziest, most arrogant comment I have ever
heard from a living Congressman. You all
know it, “…we have to pass the [health
care] bill so you can find out what’s in
it…” Personally, I would be ashamed
to take a salary for writing laws that I publicly admitted I had not read and
did not comprehend. But, personally,
neither would I have cosmetic surgery that made me look like I was permanently
goosed by Barney Frank. Of course,
Pelosi’s only qualification for office appears to be that she was daddy’s
little girl and, unfortunately, it shows—all the time!
Now that Obamacare is upon us, the reality of finding
out, “…what’s in it…” is falling upon us like a hair vest. Typical of the function of hair vests, we all
have to do penance.
I thought you might like to see what kind of penance we
will be doing in dollars from your pocketbook.
Please keep in mind, the information for this article all comes from the
White House’s own website. Below are
some interesting numbers.
There
are lots of variations, but for simplicity I took the monthly costs for a
mid-range insurance program and a family of four. The first column is for a family that makes
more than $50,000 per year. If you are a
fire-fighter and your spouse is the school secretary you are probably in that
category. The second column is what you
will pay for the same insurance if you make less than that amount. In almost every case that is $282.
The
difference between what the family above and below $50K pays is made up by the
taxpayers. That presents an interesting
double charge. If you make too much for
the subsidy you are both paying the total amount for your family’s insurance,
and are also paying the difference for some other family. Since around 45% of all American households
make less than $50K, that means that each of us above that line are paired
with, and paying the freight for, another family below the line. Let’s look at my home state of Texas
Because
the bumper crop of socialists in the White House hates prosperity, they see
nothing wrong with you giving this kind of money to total strangers. Wanting to keep your own money makes you a
greedy capitalist and an evil person who deserves to be punished! Well, the following graph brings the pain.
This
program simply is not sustainable. You
can not overfish the ocean. You can not
overcut the forest, and you can not over tax the working people of this
country.
Read
it and weep, but keep the faith.
State Cost
to you: With Tax Credit: Cost to Tax-Payer:
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