Today marks perhaps the most important day in the ObamaCare Supreme Court case as justices hear arguments concerning the law’s insurance mandate.
Requiring that citizens purchase a product they may or may not want isn’t just an unnecessary burden—it’s unconstitutional.
You see, ObamaCare doesn’t just further bankrupt our nation, raise taxes and deny millions of Americans access to affordable insurance—it flies directly in the face of our Constitution.
As such, I am confident that the Supreme Court will see the president’s multi-trillion dollar takeover of our health care system for what it really is—an affront to our Constitution and an attack on our freedoms.
I look forward to the day when ObamaCare is either struck down in the court or repealed by legislators who have the courage and conviction to do what’s right for our country so that we can achieve free-market, patient-first solutions that lower costs and improve care
For more information on my views about ObamaCare and where I stand on health care reform, please visit my website at www.EricForSenate.com.
The idea that Social Security being a "Ponzi" scheme is disrespectful to the U.S. Government and to every citizen. I believe it is atrocious for "conservatives" to go on the offensive about Social Security and Medicare when thanks to the recession, a generation of working people's financial paths have eroded, if not collapsed.
Again, where's the increase in "affordability" there?
I managed to raise a family with that 'forced extraction' and still put aside extra money for private IRAs. So I say, fine. Absolve retirees of the school levy on property taxes. Because they're your kids not mine. Give me a payout on my SS contributions with a rate of return the same as I got in the market, and we'll call it even.
We really need to scrap the employer-based health insurance system, especially when employers don't really have to provide it. You'd think this would be such a monkey off the backs of business that the private sector would jump at it.
Without the business deductions for insurance, those companies will pay higher income tax, which in turn pays for the subsidies to the workers.
Are there any hard figures out there to support this? I know what my employer based insurance is costing me a month right now.
I really feel for you, having to pay that employee contribution for pool insurance. It must be awful.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that you've never had to make payroll, and never had employees who counted on you to make good decisions about their well being, And since you haven't, I shouldn't be surprised that you have so little understanding of the problems inherent in employer-based health care.
So now you GenXers are suggesting that we Boomers just eat the money we put into FICA. Or not eat, as the case may be. I really don't think so.
Have you by any chance read Ursula LeGuin's 'Those Who Walk Away from Omelas'? Are you comfortable with paying a few dollars less per month knowing that it means some people have nothing at all?
Don't tell me you're buying this scheme without having run the numbers? And what happens if there aren't enough "jerk" employers out there to fund the subsidy for guys like you? I mean, that is a possibility, isn't it? Or does this whole shell game hang on the assumption that employers, by nature, are jerks? And that folks who get kicked to the curb as a result of it are going to direct their anger at them, rather than a system that set the process in motion.
Why do I have to read a book to get a straight answer on whether or not you expect to benefit at the expense of those who haven't found themselves in the position you've found yourself? And again, I go back to how pitting one segment of the middle class against another as a result of the intent of this law to encourage employers to be "jerks" is an example of Democrats "standing up for the middle class"?
If I'm wrong, prove me wrong with numbers. Or retreat once again into the rarified air of something that's really not as complicated as you make it out to be.
That's why I asked if you had any numbers. Not some reading reference designed to reinforce the theory.
Yes, my generation cannot be trusted to uphold a contract we have no say in and has been perverted multiple times between its inception and our arrival on this planet.
Same excuse as Lyle, the system sucks, you had to do it; therefore, everyone should. I am not expecting SS to pay me anything. That money that has been taken from me is gone. My generation understand and accepts that. You two got to play the big government nanny state your whole lives. I refuse to play that game and will make every attempt possible to change it. Not because I feel you don't deserve to get your money back, but because it is an archaic system that takes freedoms from me. You guys had many more years then I to change the system to something better and did nothing. Lyle claims we just need to wait till your dead and then everything will be better. I am not that patient.
How is an individual who can't afford to pay for unaffordable health insurance going to have the money to pay the fine? Are they going to be thrown in prison? "It's a bit late for that now, isn't it? Perhaps if Obama hadn't pushed it through so quickly, we'd have something worth having..."