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

To: i-node who wrote (12024)	12/3/2009 10:38:28 AM
From: Road Walker	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

No, I don't need to. So you have the innate ability to recognize low income folks? One can also point to the fact that low-income people collect 100% of welfare checks, food stamps, medicaid benefits, earned income tax credits, and various other benefits that amount to massive portions of the federal and state budgets. But what is the sense in the comparison? Yeah, since the wealthy receive benefits from many other government departments. The key point I was making was that when a low income person pays a 6% sales tax it is not inconsequential. When they pay 50 cents a gallon excise tax on a gallon of gas it's a more severe penalty than a rich person paying the same amount. When they pay property taxes, or a share of their rent goes to property taxes to support our schools it's a contribution to our economic well being. Excise taxes on phones, road tolls, all these have an impact. Income tax is just a part of the picture. And your characterization of them as drunken gamblers is .... well about what I expect from you.