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

To: John Koligman who wrote (17021)	4/18/2010 9:32:50 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

>>> The Feds are trying to get the tech moving, as they have in the past with so many other technologies... Most consumer technologies never have this kind of advantage. The government has never given me a credit for buying a computer, for example, or any piece of software technology. And until this year they've never given me a credit for a household appliance. In fact, the ONLY such personal credits I can recall are energy credits. And they were doling out residential energy credits in the early 80s trying to get people to spend money on infeasible technologies, like solar panels, that are still infeasible today in most situations. If 30 years of tax credits can't make a technology viable, then it is time to try something else. IMO, these expenditures are some of the dumbest our government has ever made.