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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (4830)2/22/2008 9:48:52 PM
From: TimF   of 42652
 
the dems want to roll back their fat tax cut from Bush...that could be called a benefit.

And it could be called an artichoke, but neither statement would have much to do with reality.

Government freebie's are not free.....we all are paying for them some how. So the gov'mint contribution is not free anymore than Medicare Part A is free....you paid for it all your working life.

Of course government programs have to be paid for. But they get paid for by taxes, and when people receive the benefits they pay nothing, or only make a small payment compared to the cost, and they feel like they are getting a freebie and want to continue to get one.

A lot of people don't even notice the payroll taxes they pay, and even if they do most of them only notice half of them (the half that are considered the employee contribution and get put on the paycheck, not the half thats the "employer contribution" which serves to depress wages and thus is a cost to the employee to the same degree that the "employee contribution" is.
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