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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (493420)	6/29/2012 11:30:04 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

I guess if you are a health insurance company it's great news. I mean how can you miss if the government decrees everyone must buy your product? They may be happy now, but the ACA is a poison pill the way it stands. I would much rather pay 1% of my pre-tax earnings on health care instead of the 2% to 3.5% in post tax dollars that I am paying now. There's no way that reducing the amount that everyone pays will help to unburden the health care system. It's not like we are adding now money to the system. The people who are currently getting the benefit of free healthcare because they are indigent aren't going to join the ranks of people who are paying into the system. And even if they did, their 1% contribution isn't going to be meaningful. The only way that the 1% tax makes any sense is if it is on top of the amount that we are paying for healthcare already. And the way that progressives work, that is exactly what will happen. They now have the camel's nose under the tent flap. It won't be too long before the whole stinky beast is inside the tent.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (493420)	6/29/2012 1:38:54 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793964

Meme of the day...

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (493420)	6/29/2012 1:51:06 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 793964

The best and the brightest went on strike a long time ago and no one noticed. As far as their capital goes it is sitting in safe havens in foreign currency and gold bullion. With a flick of a computer key it can be transferred back or be on hiatus where it sits. Citizenship status should not be akin to a prison sentence. I wonder how much it would cost to buy a Kenyan citizenship. "Government intervention in business becomes so pervasive and destructive to creativity and independent thought that the best and brightest, led by John Galt, go on strike. They just walk away from their businesses and hang together in Colorado. Meanwhile the country crumbles from within because the only people left are the mediocre freeloaders."