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Old 05-09-2008, 06:54 AM   #138 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by knot_e_lady View Post
FX also fails to realize that the largest group of uninsured are working people.

Yes, FX, people who DO pay taxes. They actually make too much to qualify for Medicaid, but can't afford the exhorbitant premiums most insurance companies charge. On my other forum, a woman who is in a group plan for small businesses just got her notification of increase in premiums to almost $1000 a month.

She pays taxes, as does her husband.

Oh, and BTW, waaa waaa to you about EIC. Jeepers, someone who makes less the $25,000 a year gets a little extra back at tax time, boo hoo to you.

When I was single with 3 kids, just barely making it, that little extra I got at tax time took care of dental visits for the kids.
Not my problem. Get a better job. I have my own family to be concerned about. Your issues that made you single with 3 kids is none of my concern. I'm doing my best to make sure my wife and kids have what it takes to make it. And that includes watching everything I eat and drink so that I can be around to see my son grow up. Taking taxes out of my check to help individual people that I don't know that aren't contributing to the system but getting help is not my idea of fair. And someone who makes $25k a year and getting more money back than they paid in is bullshit. It's crap like that that makes me not support universal health care.
Unless they attach it to a non-deductible non-graduated tax that everybody pays, I'm not for it.
I don't believe in punishing people for being successful. Why would you tax someone heavier because "they can afford it". That's bullshit. They work just as hard as anyone else, why should they be punished more for being wealthy?