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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (1539)1/25/2007 12:13:07 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Raising taxes generally a democrat ideal. Raising taxes on the most productive members of society does not seem like a productive idea. Maybe President Bush is trying to ensure the next office holder gets a bad economy.

Raising taxes on high wage earners isn't reasonably construed as "limiting an organizations ability to respond to market changes"

Really?

"Answer: Government has failed at everything they ever regulated "

All the more reason to limit or eliminate special targeted tax breaks that the government has used to try and interfere in the health care insurance market. Targeted tax breaks are in a sense a form of regulation. They reward certain behavior, and punish other behavior.

Also your statement isn't literally true, unless you count anything short of total perfection as failure. The government's record with regulation may not exactly be good, but it isn't perfectly 100% faulty.

Can you point to the legislation in which tax preferences was intentionally created? The system is old enough that I suspect a loophole was found several decades ago, and that it has been a sacred cow ever since. If allowing people to keep some of their retirement taxes in an account which they have rights to is a terrible ides, why is this sacred cow busting a good one?

Failure has many levels. There might have been some government regulation that was transitionally good, but almost all government regulation has morphed into a load of straw enough to bury the camel, not just break its back. If it isn't there yet, it it moving in that direction.
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