Funny, isn’t it – all the billions of taxpayer dollars being spent on everything from whorehouses to stem cell research, and for some strange reason Congress just can’t step up and vote for a decent education for disadvantaged kids.
Guess this is one way to guarantee that the poor will always be with us.
I’m sharing 2 links that are a bit scary to me…I’d like your opinion.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/11/AR2009031103827.html
http://msplaceddemocrat.com/http:/msplaceddemocrat.com/universal-health-care-on-the-backs-of-the-middle-class/
Our school insurance will go up 10% (and that is with a 3% decrease because of wellness check by the staff). When I’m not teaching I help as much as I can on the family farm/ranch…(where is the ag MONTH?).
This scares me.
HI MT! Glad to have you back!
Scary? Absolutely! Surprising? Not at all.
Universal health care is going to cost a whole bunch more. I’ve always been very frustrated at the people who have been all in a twitter about the “high cost of health care” and “all the people who don’t have insurance” and somehow think that providing health care for thousands more is somehow going to reduce the cost. Simple logic – if something costs “X dollars per person” and you provide it to a bunch more people, it’s going to cost that many times more.
So if we’re suddenly going to cover more people – and it’s going to cost however much more – where’s the money going to come from. Tax the rich? With the recent decline in the economy, there’s been a parallel drop in the number of rich people – and they aren’t so rich anymore either. So – heck – let’s just have everybody pitch in.
So those of us who have health insurance benefits through our employers will now get to subsidize those who don’t. And the really fun thing is – when you add the value of the employer-paid insurance onto our incomes, it probably bumps a bunch of us into a higher tax bracket – so we can pay even more.
I’m afraid the train has left the station on this one – and all we can do is bend over and grab ankles.
Hope! Change!
(What – no PSA’s for Ag Month? Awww. LOL.)
One of our sons has been employed in the auto industry for about 25 years and was required to take a significant cut in salary this year even though his evaluation would have given him a significant raise in years past. He is glad to have a job and hopes that the company is able to keep it together so that employment continues. Most would count him as “middle class” even though to us, it seems he grosses a lot of money. The net, after taxes, isn’t so impressive. Even these people who seem to be doing well to some of us in states where median income isn’t so high, have a limit to how much tax they can pay and stay solvent.
Hi SB!
“The net, after taxes, isn’t so impressive. ”
I suspect that union dues take a bit of a chunk too, huh? After everybody gets their share, there’s not much left to take home for any of us.
Actually, he is in managment so doesn’t pay union dues…also works far more than the 40 hour work week. More like the rest of us who work until the job is done or we run outof daylight!