[johnwk]

If the President really wants to help poor working people with paying their health insurance he should promote adding the following words to our Constitution, bringing us back to our founding father’s original tax plan which allows the poor working people to keep their paychecks to meet their own economic needs as our founding fathers intended:

“The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay ``any`` tax or burden calculated from profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money”


But the President’s health insurance tax scheme is just another socialistic proposal coming down from the socialist gang on Capitol Hill to redistribute wealth for an object not within the delegated powers granted to Congress by our Constitution.

Keep in mind Bush also pushed the socialist No Child Left Behind Act, more appropriate called the No Dime Left Behind Act which also allows the gang on Capitol Hill to redistribute wealth for an object not authorized by the federal Constitution.

This new health insurance proposal is asserted to be “revenue neutral“ and is intended to tax perks given to employees by their employer so folks in government may then redistribute that newly generated government revenue to the “poor and underprivileged” via a privileged tax break.

Neutral, is another word in this instance for socialists to “redistribute wealth” for a function not authorized by the federal Constitution.

But why do socialists on Capitol Hill love to redistribute wealth? Well, it just happens to be very, very profitable for their own economic interests!

Just think of all the political plum jobs created by the Republican/Democrat leadership on Capitol Hill____ created to redistribute tax revenue taken from hard working Americans for functions not authorized by our written Constitution. Here is a current A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies

Now, think of how large this privileged government employee group lives with their six figure salaries, extravagant health care benefits, which most people in the private sector can only dream of, and, what about the outrageous retirement pension programs folks in government get for redistributing tax revenue for functions not authorized by the Constitution___ the financing of which is confiscated from the paychecks of hard working Americans.

When will the American People wake up and come to the realization the object of the Capitol Hill gang, Republicans and Democrats in political power, is to keep themselves in power, live large, and enjoy the top of the shelf fruits siphoned from the pockets of working people. That is what socialism is all about…a big fat tax pig getting fatter and it relies upon the manipulative power of income taxation to feed itself. The solution is only too obvious___ add the following words to our Constitution, bringing us back to our founding father’s original tax plan which was created by tax rebels and designed to control the actions of Congress, rather than have Congress control and manipulate the people‘s lives:


“The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay ``any`` tax or burden calculated from profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money”

Regards,
JWK

The servant has become the master over those who created a servant and the new servant pays tribute by taxation to a gangster government which ignores our most basic laws…our constitutions, state and federal.

[smacintush]

So, are you like the Marden/Abe/Aberdeenwriter of taxes?

[Dakar²]

Yes.

[Millennium]

Originally Posted by johnwk 

If the President really wants to help poor working people with paying their health insurance he should promote adding the following words to our Constitution, bringing us back to our founding father’s original tax plan which allows the poor working people to keep their paychecks to meet their own economic needs as our founding fathers intended:

Emphasis mine, because there's a flaw here which needs to be pointed out: thanks to the current system of deductions, many "poor working people" don't pay taxes at all (or rather, they do but it all gets refunded if they file). No form of tax cut helps them, since you can't cut any further than $0. They can't save money they were never losing to taxation in the first place.

Ultimately, that's the problem with Bush's current plan. I'm glad to see that he's not trying to collapse the whole industry into a "single-payer" government monopoly, but he needs to focus more on group health plans that use their buying power to negotiate better rates than individual health plans can. He also needs to rein the ludicrously-corrupt drug industry, but that's beyond the scope of insurance plans anyway; it needs a different approach.

[johnwk]

Originally Posted by Millennium 

Emphasis mine, because there's a flaw here which needs to be pointed out: thanks to the current system of deductions, many "poor working people" don't pay taxes at all (or rather, they do but it all gets refunded if they file). No form of tax cut helps them, since you can't cut any further than $0. They can't save money they were never losing to taxation in the first place.

Ultimately, that's the problem with Bush's current plan. I'm glad to see that he's not trying to collapse the whole industry into a "single-payer" government monopoly, but he needs to focus more on group health plans that use their buying power to negotiate better rates than individual health plans can. He also needs to rein the ludicrously-corrupt drug industry, but that's beyond the scope of insurance plans anyway; it needs a different approach.

I would consider a working person earning 40-50K in New York City a poor working person and those earning below 40-50K near destitute. Allowing both to have an untaxed paycheck would have a very significant economic impact upon them, enough so I dare to speculate to pay for their own catastrophic health insurance.


JWK