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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (6045)	2/12/2009 10:34:44 AM
From: Lane3	2 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

Working adults unusually pay payroll taxes for the entitlement programs, but a very significant fraction, approaching 50 percent, don't pay net income taxes. In the US, federal taxes other than income tax are designed for specific purposes. Payroll taxes, for example, go to retirement and people who pay them get a payback later in life. Gas taxes go to roads and the like. So if we had a national health care system it would have to be paid out of income taxes or a separate tax set up to fund it. Folks bring up other taxes a lot when discussing this subject but they are quite irrelevant. Only about half of taxpayers pay into income tax, as you say. The Wikipedia link has a lot more information, but doesn't directly deal with the point about many people not being net payers of income tax. Yes, you have to do the research and the math yourself, as I have done.