Guest post by Leigh MacNeil:
Obamacare is the largest tax increase in American history; taxes that will kill jobs and destroy our economy. Did you know that Religious Objectors, Illegal Aliens, Prisoners, Members of Indian Tribes, Hardship Cases (determined by HHS) and those earning less than the poverty line are exempt from these taxes?
- How do we expect to maintain service levels while giving 30 million plus people most of which choose not to be insured free healthcare?
- How can the government provide these services on the backs of tax payers and not see a negative impact both on the system and the economy?
You don’t need to be some well-to-do economic genius to see that this is a bad idea.
Let’s start with the mandates or better yet the income surtaxes: An adult will be taxed 2.5% of his or her adjusted gross income and we will be penalized with if we do not comply with the mandate to have health insurance. That alone makes this legislation illegal and warrant repeal.
How about the quality of service we will see when 40% of the medical doctors leave the profession due to the monetary constraints and piles of red tape that come with this monstrosity? That’s a recipe for…
Shea-Porter is clinging to the idea that the health care bill she deemed passed will create jobs. But like most progressive undertakings it will destroy two to three times as many jobs as are forced into existence by the distant, egg head, committee appointees in DC. Net loss, ship sinks, economy drowns.
Paul Hodes is trying to restyle himself as a fiscal conservative. As a Washington outsider. But Washington outsiders don’t get huge campaign donations from the left wings senatorial elite Like Dan Inoyue, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and Bob Menendez. Paul Hodes does.
Independent voices might have some expectation of doing independent things. Things like reading legislation or accessing resources outside the ones the people desperately selling a bill want you to stick to. That kind of open mindedness would go a long way to demonstrating integrity and responsibility. Or you could be Carol Shea Porter. 