Anonymous
Post 01/29/2014 23:02     Subject: Who is ready to get Raped by the new medicare tax
Anonymous wrote:Medicare is the worst in terms of cost. It covers the most expensive group...old people. Those old people vote anyone out who messes with it because they know they could not afford on their own. At the same time they scream about Obamacare.


We have Medicare for precisely this reason. Incidentally, this is why the whole voucher proposal was as dumb as shit -- give an elderly person a voucher and tell them to buy insurance on the open market? What a fucking joke.

Access to health care should be a fundamental human right, not treated a valuable commodity. It's a public good and should be controlled by government as all public goods are.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2014 19:31     Subject: Who is ready to get Raped by the new medicare tax
Medicare is the worst in terms of cost. It covers the most expensive group...old people. Those old people vote anyone out who messes with it because they know they could not afford on their own. At the same time they scream about Obamacare.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2014 18:33     Subject: Who is ready to get Raped by the new medicare tax
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Knowing that I will never see the social security nor the Medicare I have been paying into my entire life, I do not like the new additional tax. What offends me are my friends who either do not work or barely work, who will in face benefit from all my earnings over the years. Seriously, I can't even think about it because it angers me so much. (PS - read President Clinton's report on SS/Medicare --so scary.)


This is what bothers me too. I wouldn't have as much of a problem paying in if I knew I would also be getting back at some point. Given that I won't retire for 35 more years, it's pretty unlikely that I'll get very much. The system is a mess.

It's frustrating, but I'm not saying we should stop paying for all of the old people. We can't exactly take away their benefits out of nowhere . . . but yes, not pleased to be paying more for something that I'll probably never get the benefit of.


Baloney. You'll get your benefits, unless you die young.


Agree, social security in particular isn't going anywhere. Fixing the financing of it really isn't that difficult.

Medicare is in a much dicier position.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2014 18:32     Subject: Who is ready to get Raped by the new medicare tax
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm pissed off to be paying it.


Do you plan to enroll in Medicare eventually? Do you have aging parents or in-laws or neighbors who depend on Medicare? Yeah, you do. So shaddup.


Isn't Medicare forced ?


What? Of course not. Eligible people can ENROLL in Medicare. If you don't want it or need it, you don't have to enroll.

No legal way to get out of the tax, though.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2014 18:29     Subject: Who is ready to get Raped by the new medicare tax
Well, this kind of makes up for the fact that you pay no social security taxes on income over $113,000 (in 2013).

Suck it up, OP.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2014 17:39     Subject: Who is ready to get Raped by the new medicare tax
Anonymous wrote:Yep, I knew my taxes would be going up this year, but this one somehow flew under my radar.

Nice little $1500 surprise when I did my taxes yesterday. Ugh.


Congratulations on earning $300,000 a year. Some ugh.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2014 17:35     Subject: Who is ready to get Raped by the new medicare tax
Anonymous wrote:If you are offended by the term of art being "raped by taxes," something is wrong with you and you need to get help. It is a term of art. Good lord! I am so glad I don't live inside DC (and away from all you psycho ideologue transplants) because you are the kind of people that disgust and annoy ME. You are the modern day hippie weirdos - but worse than a hippie. You aren't even happy or loving or peace-making. Just hateful and angry.


If people on this site annoy YOU, go back to your rat hole. Problem solved.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2014 17:28     Subject: Who is ready to get Raped by the new medicare tax
Yep, I knew my taxes would be going up this year, but this one somehow flew under my radar.

Nice little $1500 surprise when I did my taxes yesterday. Ugh.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2014 15:03     Subject: Who is ready to get Raped by the new medicare tax
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you are offended by the term of art being "raped by taxes," something is wrong with you and you need to get help. It is a term of art. Good lord! I am so glad I don't live inside DC (and away from all you psycho ideologue transplants) because you are the kind of people that disgust and annoy ME. You are the modern day hippie weirdos - but worse than a hippie. You aren't even happy or loving or peace-making. Just hateful and angry.


a "term of art"? .... perhaps among the artless and Neanderthal boors the PP hangs out with, but not among people with any decent level of sensitivity or civility ... I'm not hateful or angry at you, PP, because you're such a clueless tool. I just think it's pathetic.


I am still sitting here trying to figure out how it's hateful or angry to be offended when someone compares something to rape that is not rape. "Term of art" PP, do you think there's something wrong with the actual rape victim who said that she was offended at the comparison?