dystopia: noun
“a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.”
Well the scum of the earth finally did it. Through complete Marxist planning, the nitwits in the Democratic Congress passed an unread law that will actually end health care programs for the retired. This of course will force the retired into the government ‘non option’. The Health Care Insurance Industry which they so falsely demonized will become non existent.
But wait there’s more! Before this law really gets rolling, it will seal the death of those who voted for it at the polls come November 2nd. Isn’t it about time we cleared Washington of the scum that would vote on a bill they didn’t create, (the czars created it) or read? With it’s passage, Democrats have declared war on the Constitution and “We The People”. We will respond in kind. Random thoughts while visualizing the creation of untold numbers of shovel ready jobs come November, J.C.
The single component of “health” “care” “reform” neatly encompasses all the broader trends about where we’re headed.
Mark Stein
In 2003, Washington blessed a grateful citizenry with the Medicare prescription-drug benefit, it being generally agreed by all the experts that it was unfair to force seniors to choose between their monthly trip to Rite-Aid and Tony Danza in dinner theater. However, in order to discourage American businesses from immediately dumping all their drug plans for retirees, Congress gave them a modest tax break equivalent to 28 percent of the cost of the plan.
Fast forward to the dawn of the Obamacare utopia. In one of a bazillion little clauses in a 2,000-page bill your legislators didn’t bother reading (because, as Representative Conyers explained, he wouldn’t understand it even if he did), Congress voted to subject the 28 percent tax benefit to the regular, good, ol’, American-as-apple-pie corporate tax rate of 35 percent. For the purposes of comparison, Sweden’s corporate tax rate is 26.3 percent, and Ireland’s is 12.5 percent. But just because America already has the second-highest corporate tax in the OECD is no reason why we can’t keep going until it’s double Sweden’s and quadruple Ireland’s. I refer you to the decision last year by the donut chain Tim Hortons, a Delaware corporation, to reorganize itself as a Canadian corporation “in order to take advantage of Canadian tax rates.” Hold that thought: “In order to take advantage of Canadian tax rates” — a phrase hitherto unknown to American English outside the most fantastical futuristic science fiction.
Ask yourself this: If you impose a sudden 35 percent tax on something, are you likely to get as much of it? Go on, take a wild guess. On the day President Obama signed Obamacare into law, Verizon sent an e-mail to all its employees warning that the company’s costs “will increase in the short term.” And in the medium term? Well, U.S. corporations that are able to do so will get out of their prescription-drug plans and toss their retirees onto the Medicare pile. So far just three companies — Deere, Caterpillar, and Valero Energy — have calculated that the loss of the deduction will add a combined $265 million to their costs. There are an additional 3,500 businesses presently claiming the break. The cost to taxpayers of that 28 percent benefit is about $665 per person. The cost to taxpayers of equivalent Medicare coverage is about $1,200 per person. So we’re roughly doubling the cost of covering an estimated 5 million retirees. Complete Story
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The rest of the world is watching us.
If we are successful in defending our Constitutional rights, they will cheer us,…if we are not, the ‘City on the Hill’ was finally defeated by Marxists, a sad day for freedom.
It ain’t going to happen. I like the odds, let’s say one hundred million of us against 535 of them. There is some serious ass kicking about to happen and it won’t be ours, Jim