If you've been wondering, I've actually been too sad to respond the last few days. Nothing since the Revolutionary War has been a bigger invasion on our liberty than this health care reform. Never has our Congress used back room bribes and Slaughter rules for something as influential as this bill. Don't blame the Democrats, though. While the Republican Party has been losing their compass of principles, not fulfilling the wishes of their constituents, and patting themselves on the back for insignificant things like Tax Cuts, Democrats have achieved, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and now, Gov't Health Care. Democrats are a team of starters while Republicans are a team of scrubs. In comparison, Nothing the Republican Party has accomplished in the last 20 years resulted in a shrinking government role or an increase in personal liberties. If you sit at night watching the news and you find yourself angry, you've got no one to blame but yourself. Foxnews and talk radio hosts are more popular than ever, yet our votes elect the same inept politicians term after term that allow our country to move further and further to the left without a fight. If you're wondering why this bill is so bad for this country, the proof is listed below. If you kill the spirit of the producers, the result is economic peril. Here are some of the fiscal liabilities included in the bill to expand the number of individuals dependent on handouts while stealing from the hands and pockets of the only people feeding this monster:
Boortz.com
- A new 3.6% tax on all investment income including capital gains. That means that the capital gains tax rate (including California state tax) will rise to 33.9%. The tax on dividend income will rise from 15% today to 53.7% including California tax.
- Additional Medicare tax on self employment income and wages. This removes the current cap on wages subject to this tax and it will effectively move the top income tax rate from 35% to 43.4% within a couple of years. Add in the California tax again and would then be close to a 54% marginal tax rate. I believe that this is the highest of any major industrialized country. But because spending is so high we would still have $1 trillion dollar annual deficits even after this tax.
- There is a 2.9% tax on all medical “devices”, which basically means everything used in a doctor’s office or hospital. Including gowns, syringes, and the like. This will increase health care costs for everyone who does not get free government insurance.
- The deduction for Medical expenses is currently limited to those expenses that exceed 7.5% or your income. This will be raised to a threshold of 10% of your income. This means that fewer people will get any tax relief from medical expenses they pay for themselves.
- There are various taxes on anything a person might do to pay for their own medical expenses. Things like Health Savings Accounts, Cafeteria Plans, and Flexible Savings Accounts are ways for people to save their OWN money for their OWN medical care on a pre-tax basis will be limited and taxed. This is all part of the way that President Obama gets to government run health care by making it illegal or costly to pay for your own care so you have to go to the government.
- A 10% tax on tanning services. I call this the “Jersey Shore tax”. This one has to be really upsetting to ‘The Situation’, Snookie, and Pauly D.
- A tax on self-insured health plans. This is another penalty on those who try to pay for their own health care.
- A new tax on pharmaceutical manufacturers. This will raise the price of drugs for everyone who does not get them from the government for free.
- A new tax on “Cadillac” health plans. This is an up to 55% tax on any health insurance that costs over about $800 per month including employee and employer contributions. This tax does not apply if you are a union member or your plan is from AARP or Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. These are major Democratic constituencies and they exempted them. For everyone else, this discourages comprehensive health coverage. Isn’t that what the President says he is trying to achieve? Like most of what the President says, his actions are not even close to his words.
- There is a new tax on all 'for-profit' health insurance companies (except for a few favored ones). This will also raise the costs of premiums for everyone not getting free care from the government.
- If you don’t buy health insurance (as dictated acceptable by a new federal czar), you will be fined up to 2.5% of your income even if you pay all of your medical expenses yourself. If your company does not provide said health insurance to all employees, the company will be fined up to $2,000 per employee.
All of this will cause growth and jobs to decline, medical costs to go up, deficits and debt to increase, and quality doctors and providers to leave the business. It will cause fewer people to pay for their own care, and more to seek government care. And that is exactly what the authors want.
In spite of all of these taxes, this bill will create deficits of at least half a trillion dollars MORE than what we already have at the federal and state levels over the next 10 years, and a great deal more after that. So, lots more taxes, lots more spending, and lots more deficits. The time at which the Treasury will not be able to sell debt any more, except at a huge rate, is approaching fast. America, in my opinion with this bill, is much more likely to collapse under the weight of our own fiscal excess than to be seriously threatened by any external force.
No comments:
Post a Comment