Finally!
I was beginning to despair that it would ever get done.
Personally, I don't care what else they do with tax code, just so long as the government is no longer following the fascist course of being the muscle to enforce the enrichment of private companies at the expense of citizens. The rest of the tax bill is fine by me, but it would be fine by me as well if none of it were there but the repeal of that draconian Obama era illegitimate tax on the public for not doing business with private corporations.
I don't even really care what they do with "health care" - but believe that if they are going to do anything at all, it should at least have a bearing on actual health care, rather than only extracting cash for health insurance companies. Health care and health insurance are not at all the same thing, so so-called "Obamacare" was nothing of the sort. For example, if I have a heart attack, I'm not going to go see an insurance adjuster to perform open heart surgery on me... I would expect a doctor, and actual health care provider, to do that. Obamacare dealt ONLY with insurance, not at all with actual health care.
Single payer? I don't care - go for it if you need to, just so long as I am not forced to participate in it. Same for any other health care legislation... go for it, but when you start forcing people to participate, you've over stepped your bounds.
Whatever they do in the matter, they ought at least keep it on target, or rename it to what it actually is - if it doesn't actually touch health CARE, then call it what it is - slavery to private corporations enforced by governmental muscle.
It's not a done deal yet, there is still voting to get done on it and then delivery to Trump's desk for signing, but I've got more hope than I have had for several years now. I'll be watching it closely... and if they can actually get it accomplished, I may be persuaded to vote Republican again. It will demonstrate that they may actually give a shit about freedom and individual liberty, something that has been missing from DC for some time now, on BOTH sides of the aisle.
If you recall, back during the passage of Obamacare, the "individual mandate" was called a "tax" by detractors, and Obamacare supporters insisted, very vocally, that it was NOT a tax - that was the only way they could get it passed. Then, after the fact when it was challenged at the Supreme Court, they suddenly changed up and said it WAS a tax - that was the only way they could persuade the SCOTUS to deem it to be constitutional. Otherwise, it would have been found to be absolutely UNconstitutional, an onerous punishment on the poor with no Constitutional authorization for it's passage. Now that they had to do that, however, it made it subject to repeal in a TAX bill. There's poetic justice in there somewhere.
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I was beginning to despair that it would ever get done.
Personally, I don't care what else they do with tax code, just so long as the government is no longer following the fascist course of being the muscle to enforce the enrichment of private companies at the expense of citizens. The rest of the tax bill is fine by me, but it would be fine by me as well if none of it were there but the repeal of that draconian Obama era illegitimate tax on the public for not doing business with private corporations.
I don't even really care what they do with "health care" - but believe that if they are going to do anything at all, it should at least have a bearing on actual health care, rather than only extracting cash for health insurance companies. Health care and health insurance are not at all the same thing, so so-called "Obamacare" was nothing of the sort. For example, if I have a heart attack, I'm not going to go see an insurance adjuster to perform open heart surgery on me... I would expect a doctor, and actual health care provider, to do that. Obamacare dealt ONLY with insurance, not at all with actual health care.
Single payer? I don't care - go for it if you need to, just so long as I am not forced to participate in it. Same for any other health care legislation... go for it, but when you start forcing people to participate, you've over stepped your bounds.
Whatever they do in the matter, they ought at least keep it on target, or rename it to what it actually is - if it doesn't actually touch health CARE, then call it what it is - slavery to private corporations enforced by governmental muscle.
It's not a done deal yet, there is still voting to get done on it and then delivery to Trump's desk for signing, but I've got more hope than I have had for several years now. I'll be watching it closely... and if they can actually get it accomplished, I may be persuaded to vote Republican again. It will demonstrate that they may actually give a shit about freedom and individual liberty, something that has been missing from DC for some time now, on BOTH sides of the aisle.
If you recall, back during the passage of Obamacare, the "individual mandate" was called a "tax" by detractors, and Obamacare supporters insisted, very vocally, that it was NOT a tax - that was the only way they could get it passed. Then, after the fact when it was challenged at the Supreme Court, they suddenly changed up and said it WAS a tax - that was the only way they could persuade the SCOTUS to deem it to be constitutional. Otherwise, it would have been found to be absolutely UNconstitutional, an onerous punishment on the poor with no Constitutional authorization for it's passage. Now that they had to do that, however, it made it subject to repeal in a TAX bill. There's poetic justice in there somewhere.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’