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To: ahhaha who wrote (7486)	2/17/2006 11:48:20 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) of 24758

These politicians are victims of their own single stage thinking on their war on wealth. They never ask themselves what happens after we do this and then what happens after that and after that. The Walmart bill was typical of the single stage thinking that goes on in my state. They want to force Walmart to spend X amount of dollars on health insurance. The reasoning is that the state/feds pick up the tab now for some of the low paid workers who don't buy into the Walmart health insurance plan but are eligible for Medicaid because of their low wages. Their thinking is that Walmart will now be forced to pick up the tab, but in reality the person forced to buy health insurance is the low paid worker. Right now 96% of the taxes that pay for Medicaid are paid by people in the upper half of the income distribution, so essentially these programs to provide healthcare to the poor are paid for by the middle class and wealthy. Almost no one who fought for the bill would characterize it as forcing low wage workers to pay for their own health care as opposed to having the wealthy pay for it, but that is the end result.

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