Real cost of Obama health tax
This writer has always had a good bit of respect for Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the Democratic congressman from Ohio who has consistently voted his conscience since the 911 takeover of the country by dual-loyalist neocons, rush to wars, and repeal of individual freedoms here in America. He had been one of the Democratic opponents to the Obama health tax, voting against the version that was presented last year. This week Obama himself is ratcheting up pressure on Democratic holdouts, and Kucinich has caved, stating that he will support the tax that will require all Americans to pay private companies for health insurance whether they want to or not. In so doing, he has now made my personal “S” list.
The most under-reported aspect of this tax is just how much it will cost Americans who are presently not covered by health insurance. A family of four that makes $44,000 (that would be a couple who each make about $10.50 an hour) will be forced by the government to shell out $2,763 annually to private insurance companies that the government presumably will select. That’s a $230 per month tax levied on people who are hardly making a living wage who may or may not ever use the plans they will be forced to purchase.
If you and your spouse are fortunate enough to each have jobs that pay $33,000 a year, you are in for a treat! Your family of four will be paying the private insurers of Obama’s choice no less than 10% of your income per year; $9,435, or $783.25 per month. No, that’s not a misprint. You can read all about it in the Health Care 101 Primer. We can! Change we can believe in!
People who are so in favor of “health care” simply do not realize that they are going to have to PAY for it. A single-payer system like the rest of the world enjoys would be a different matter. A huge tax cut that you could use as savings toward possible future health care needs would also be an option. This 2700 page tax plan is pure idiocy, and if there is any good to it at all it is that it will finally open the eyes of the sheep when they realize the true ramifications of the tax. The same people who are supporting it will be the ones who won’t be able to pay for it.