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

To: John Koligman who wrote (16706)	4/12/2010 1:49:09 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Those income levels aren't 'rich', but I'm not sure what you are getting at. That's what I was getting at, your sense of what is "rich." People say "tax the rich" but don't define it. We seem to have a disconnect from person to person and program to program about what is rich. I don't see a retiree with a six figure income paying $221 for medicare as out of line. We have one program subsidizing folks at the same level as another is means-testing them. You were engaged in a discussion about higher tax levels for the rich with some others who were trying to get a sense from you about the level at which you would push up rates, IOW, what constitutes "rich." You wrote that you would expect more to come from those with incomes over $250K. I then asked what you thought about a program that is taking more from those with incomes over $85K, and old people, to boot. So your answers seem inconsistent to me. $85K for an old person vs $250K for other folks. Bear in mind that Medicare has been means-tested for only a few years. The folks being means-tested now may have paid higher taxes all those years on their higher salaries expecting to get equal benefits when they retired. Now they're getting hit a second time.