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

To: Road Walker who wrote (14892)	3/23/2010 12:49:14 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The CBO has spoken... they are the true test. No they aren't. They can't be when the bill is designed to game the system, and when it includes items that will likely be modified or removed with future bills. And even without those considerations they still wouldn't be "the true test", the would be one more source of opinion. A respected source, but a source that has a history of being very far off in its estimates of the cost of major federal government health care programs. As for "This program reduces what's available to tax for deficit reduction", no additional substantiation is needed. Its an obvious truth. However you define the practical limit on tax collection (before it causes great harm, before raising taxes achieves rapidly diminishing returns, or before gets to the point in the Laffer curve when the additional returns are negative), and whatever figure you set of that point, there is obviously a limit to how much of our national income can be taxed (it can't be over 100% and in practice the limit is much less than that). Extra spending combined with extra taxes to pay for it use up some of that limit. That's not just a matter of opinion, it a fact beyond reasonable questioning.