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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Amazing how iberals bend over backwards to ensure that the poor don't have to contribute a cent to their care while not giving a flying F about the middle class struggling to make ends meet. For example....

When Obamacare was being rammed down Americans' throats, I told my neighbor I was against it. She called me "heartless," and then proceeded to tell me about a poor friend of hers, earning $20 an hour, who couldn't afford health insurance. She told me that if this friend has a medical situation, she MIGHT HAVE TO SELL HER HOUSE. (She bought the house years ago, when she had a good job.) When I asked if she was looking for a better job, I was met with complete disdain and told how she couldn't find a better job.

Flash forward. Her friend now has free insurance and medical care, and is still in her house. I, on the othe hand, am crashing under an overpriced insurance plan (they've got to charge middle class more to make up for the total coverage they're providing the low esrners), plus thousands of dollars of medical bills the insurance doesn't cover. It's adding up to nearly 30% of my moderate tske-hime pay, and I can't continue indefinitely. Probably within a year or so, I'll need to sell my house. When I told that same neighbor that my medical costs were so high I might have to sell - she said, with a hint of contempt...."well, instead of complaining, just get a higher-paying job."

All the defense for the lower class and to Hell with the middle class. We will see more of it under Hillary, as she shifts even more money from the middle to the lower. [/quote]

Again: you are attacking the wrong people. Why try to get $10 out of a homeless person seeking medical care when you could have the wealthy pay more? Redirect your anger towards the wealthy.

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That's the typical liberal response - tax the wealthy. There aren't enough wealthy people to solve this. It falls to the middle class.[/quote]

Donald Trump hasn't paid taxes in decades. I'm sure he's not the only one. Liberal billionaires and celebrities have remarked that they don't pay their fair share...because they aren't asked to.

Why are you against increasing the tax burden on the wealthy? Befuddling. [/quote]
+1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States

One has to conclude that people like the PP don't truly understand [i]how much[/i] wealth the truly wealthy have amassed, and when they're allowed not to have any skin in the game - and they arguably have less than anyone with their ability to exist above and apart from the rest of us - we all suffer.

But let's take $10 from poor people because you believe some internet story about someone who says the government pays for everything.[/quote]
First, why is it so wrong to want poor people to kick in $10, but there's no problem requiring someone earning $50k to pay $15,000 a year for medical? Again, all the liberal defense that poor people should get a completely free ride even if it means bankrupting people in the middle class.

And second, the idea that increasing taxes on the wealthy is how to solve it is the old liberal belief that simply isn't true. There just aren't enough wealthy people to cover the entitlement expansions. We would have to drop pretty for down into the middle class to raise the tax revenues needed.

http://taxfoundation.org/blog/no-raising-taxes-1-will-not-lead-surprising-amounts-revenue[/quote]
I think a sliding scale is fine, but for the truly poor, paying $10 for medical service could mean one less meal to eat during the week.    Many senior citizens already have to choose between eating and paying for rx.  Why are people trying to make it worse for them?

There are enough wealthy people, income over $1mil where if they are assessed a flat 25% tax rate, it would help.  How can it not help?  Why do you think the IRS provides those amnesty programs for people who have hidden money overseas to bring them back in?  Why do you think gov'ts are trying to get corporations to bring back income from overseas?  Because all of that helps.

-not a liberal, but someone whose actual federal tax rate is 28%.[/quote]

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