Comments on: How to pay for health care? Let’s re-soak the rich.

By: Marcia West

Marcia West — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:33:17 +0000

great plan — i am passing it on!

By: Bob Samuel

Bob Samuel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:57:03 +0000

Right on! In fact if we had a graduated income tax like we had in the salad days of the 1950s-1960s we wouldn’t need to pay a top federal employee to negotiate with our friends on Wall Street over their paychecks and maybe the paychecks of the rest of us would be adequate to pay for the middle income life style that has slipped into history. A fair tax structure would be the real paycheck protection act! Thanks Ray.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:14:15 +0000

wrong again, anonypottamus. the rich took it from us in the first place. wealth is always created by the people who do the work, then stolen by the rich and powerful. the graduated income tax at least allows us to get a little back and use it for the public good. what’s killing our economy is that working families don’t have enough disposable income to spend, and save, and pay taxes — all the things that drive the economy. health care reform will give them more disposable income, and at the same time help our companies become more competitive in a world marketplace where all of our trading partners have gvernment paid health care, which is what you guys should be fighting for.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:01:53 +0000

…get “our” money back?? It was never ours to begin with and was taken from the rich to start with. Why people think something they have a right to take anything from anyone and claim it as their own is beyond me… Carl’s comment is right on point. US companies and their top employees are voting with their feet and moving to other countries even before any new legislation is passed. More thoughts like this will only increase the exodus and will leave us with a country with 80% unemployment.

By: Carl Voinich

Carl Voinich — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:26:07 +0000

I sure hope this happens as it will increase the already upward trend in my line of business that we all noticed after the last US presidential election: expatriate services. And as more wealthy taxpayers make up the vast majority of my clients, I see happy times ahead.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:03:09 +0000

gee, why does danny have such little faith in the senate?

By: anne and danny

anne and danny — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:37:35 +0000

To me this is a no-brainer, so I am now reading this to Danny. He says, “despite your accurate analysis what do YOU KNOW the votes are not there?”