Taxes on rich could go over 50% in some states.
This is based on passage of Obama’s class-warfare tax surcharge nonsense passing.
The collective government, in another palsied grab for power and influence, has yet again decided it has more claim on the monies of the rich than they themselves do. While our representatives on the Hill and at state capitals fly jets around and take months long vacations to rest their laurels and be in parades, hundreds of thousands of Americans veritably kill themselves to make enough money to live comfortably in the future. Now, they will have to ship over half to their betters in D.C.
This is the first time in decades that this horror has visited our nation, and is in direct violation of an Obama campaign promise:
The $544 billion tax hike would violate one of President Obama’s ironclad campaign promises: No family will pay higher tax rates than they would have paid in the 1990s.
But what does ass-clown Robert Gibbs think?
Asked if Obama supports the surtax on wealthiest Americans even though it would break a campaign pledge, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said only, “It’s a process that we’re watching.”
Wonderful. Thank God they have their eyes on it.
Here’s one for the “the public option isn’t really an option” file:
The legislation is especially onerous for business owners, in part because it penalizes employers with a payroll bigger than $400,000 some 8 percent of wages if they don’t offer health care.
There are jobs out there that should not give out health care. McDonalds is a great example. Of course, the payrolls of those 16-year-olds with a summer job will be counted against the lowly franchise owner, evil enough to withhold care from his employees. The result will, of course, be that those jobs disappear. Growth directly below the $400K payline will stagnate to prevent this albatross, and everyone will suffer. The transition of health care from privelage (aka benefit, to use the pre-Obama word) to right is going to be phenomenally expensive and destructive.
Liberals trade in the currency of best intentions. Their high-and-mighty pretentiousness must be sated by allocating other people’s effort and dollars “for the greater good”, and so we fight them as the only American’s capable of understanding the harm the New Left crowd can inflict. I don’t believe they plan on killing the country that nurtured their foolishness, but they will not let an economy get in the way, as proven by their attempted cap and trade ambush during a huge recession. Its merely happenstance that their myopic crusade du jour will burn down the nation that so many great men have built with…
…minority entitlements, political kickbacks, and buying votes from envious class warriors? That doesn’t sound right.
…hard work, sacrifice, accountability, and self-sufficiency? There it is.
Obama is about to find out how hard a brick wall feels when he runs up against the force of the American people and its interests. He already had to park Cap and Trade in the Senate to let the fires die down. Clock’s ticking until 2010, buddy. The world’s first lame duck year 2 President may be at hand.
Chris said,
July 16, 2009 at 11:17 am
“There are jobs out there that should not give out health care.”
No. That’s why it’s called “universal.” We’re one of the very few countries which doesn’t have it, and that’s what we’re fixing. Did you really think we’d end up with the status quo?
If Obama has to break a campaign promise to make UHC work, so be it. He’s at least got the sense to see that the health of the nation is more important than any tax rate. The word is called “compromise,” and I’m going to highlight it in a couple hundred dictionaries and send a copy to House and Senate Republicans. Would you like a copy as well? Just let me know.
regulusred said,
July 16, 2009 at 12:18 pm
“Did you really think we’d end up with the status quo?”
I still do. Your boy doesn’t even have the votes on cap and trade, and the fight over health care will make that look like an appetizer. Remember the Big Health stuff you are grousing about? Yeah, they’re not done either. I would expect a full revolt from the AMA, as well. The medical students and professors I know are very scared of this bill. My graduate school is also a medical school, so the sample size is substantial.
“He’s at least got the sense to see that the health of the nation is more important than any tax rate.”
No it is not. You are confusing health of the nation with the health of the few people unable to pay for their medical bills. The health of the nation is actually the economy Obama is going to set fire to so that the unemployed can freeload a bit more on the backs of the working men and women of this country.
Lets face it: If you are in the bottom half of this nation, you collectively pay under 1% of the income tax bill. You are freeloading, and Obama is putting more sugar in his mother’s milk every day. I don’t know how people feel good about themselves under those circumstances, to be honest.
You’re hell-bent on a system so imperious, France is actually reprivatizing their system because the load is too great. Obama, gallant leader, is gleefully and disingenuously leading us straight to that same cesspool. You, and he, won’t win this round, however.
Chris said,
July 16, 2009 at 7:37 pm
“You are confusing health of the nation with the health of the few people unable to pay for their medical bills.”
50 million people is “the few?” That’s 1/6 of the population of the country, Red. And they will have health coverage, whether the pocketbooks of the rich like it or not.
regulusred said,
July 17, 2009 at 9:48 am
“50 million people is “the few?” That’s 1/6 of the population of the country, Red. And they will have health coverage, whether the pocketbooks of the rich like it or not.”
If you’re including people between jobs, the very young, college kids who choose to have no insurance, and a handful of other circumstances, which you are, of course. Of course, Medicare and Medicaid already exist to cover them, don’t they? And those programs are already untenable, aren’t they?
Yes, change the debate, Chris. Its the rich that prevent the uninsured from having insurance. They literally stop them from saving money, going for more schooling, showing up to work and all that. The bad guys are clearly the ones who power this country with skill, ingenuity, and sacrifice.
Isn’t it about time the poor got all the trappings they deserve from their lifestyles? The welfare state needs more handouts to get out of the cycle, right? You are like a slave master with your willingness to make the poor suckle more tightly at the American government’s teat. Its gross to watch your policies dehumanize the poor. Pardon my attacks, but this has me fired up. You’re cutting the ambition right out of 50 million (your number) when you do this, reducing them to leeches who cannot make their own way. You are preying on their learned helplessness so you can sleep better at night.
Chris said,
July 17, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Leave the Nietschean bullshit at the door, Red. 50 million. The number is correct, and no, they aren’t covered by Medicare or Medicaid.
“You are preying on their learned helplessness so you can sleep better at night.”
I don’t have insurance, Red. I’d love to be able to get a checkup now and then, in fact. If I lived in any other westernized nation, I’d be able to. But because I live in the richest country in the world, I can’t. Do the math.
Chris said,
July 18, 2009 at 1:00 am
*Nietzschean
regulusred said,
July 20, 2009 at 10:11 am
Thank you, saved me the trouble.