(how to pay for health care reform... - promoted by poligirl)
I caught the Randi Rhodes show today. She was suggesting that all we have to do to pay for Health Care Reform, including a Public Option, was to just Roll Back the Bush Tax Cuts!
What a Brilliant Idea!
Thanks Rhandi ... (So glad you're back btw)
As it turns out, we just need to let the Bush Tax Cuts Expire, when they are due to "sunset" (ie. Don't Renew them!)
When Would the President's Tax Cuts Expire? by Andrew M. Grossman - April 21, 2004
In 2001 and 2003, President George W. Bush proposed and Congress passed a series of tax cuts to reinvigorate the economy and reduce the government's burden on workers' paychecks. Because of opposition to these measures from some in Congress, they were implemented as temporary tax cuts, all of which will expire by January 1, 2011.
(ahhh - the Party of No... - promoted by poligirl)
In case you haven't noticed, there is a Talking Point War, developing around the "validity" of the Public Option.
There is very much at stake in this inevitable War of Words -- not least of which is YOUR Future Health, Wealth, and peace of mind.
Of course, the forces of the Status Quo, will do everything within their Financial Power, to convince you that a non-profit "Public Option" in Health Care -- is against your best interests!That it is anti-American! ... That a Public Option is somehow an "inferior" product. (says who, btw?)
Just don't buy what their selling, because really it's someone else's "best interests" that those Talking Point warriors, really have in mind:
Beware of Big Business' next "Bait and Switch"!
(Whether it be some amorphous "co-op" idea, or some other shiny object, like promising to finally "play nicely now".)
Elizabeth is back on the speaking tour and in the news. Last night, she spoke at the Progressive Forumin Houston. The Progressive Forum endeavors to:
enrich our democracy and culture by presenting the great minds who we believe are moving humanity and life towards success, speakers from all the fields of human endeavor-the sciences and humanities as well as politics and public affairs.
Other speakers have included Molly Ivins, Robert Redford, and Al Gore. Quite an esteemed bunch.
