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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Katelew who wrote (131632)2/26/2010 4:48:44 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 540835
 
The 'good ship lollipop' we're all on

Excellent choice of image. I wish I'd thought of it.

So this seems like a very generous subsidy to me.

You can look at it with sympathy from the perspective of the difficulty of coming up with 10+K for health insurance at that income level and feel like they need the help. But when you turn the problem around and look at what a thin platform we're standing on and it's unsettling. There is something inherently shaky about a system where fewer than half of us pay income taxes at all and fewer than a fifth of the population is paying enough in income taxes to cover what they get back in transfers, seems to me. Four fifths of the population can vote to raise taxes on the better off to pay for transfers to them without any real constraint. I find it unsettling. I'd like a stronger base than that. But then my glasses aren't tinted.
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