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Old 09-12-2009, 02:52 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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EVERY industrialized nation that has single payer is more content with their system than we are with ours. It is just a fact.

If you control private insurance, you will control the rise in costs for ALL health care in the US, that is another fact.
Those other countries have different government systems.
You need to compare ALL the apples to oranges here.

The US is not like European countries no matter how much anyone compares their healthcare costs.
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Old 09-12-2009, 03:40 PM
 
Location: Boise
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hopefully by taxing the disgustingly rich people who made their fortunes on the backs of working americans...
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Old 09-12-2009, 05:27 PM
 
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"I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes" (September 12, 2008, Dover, NH)
If you live in California, your taxes increased across the board. Yes, I know it's not a federal tax thing, but it's a trickle down effect. See: "not any of your taxes".
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Old 09-12-2009, 05:30 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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"I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes" (September 12, 2008, Dover, NH)
I understand that Obama is going to let the Bush tax cuts expire which means we will have higher taxes next year.

But you know what....it's not really an "increase" is it ?
IMHO..sly move. Let the cuts expire and collect the extra taxes without lifting a finger.
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Old 09-12-2009, 06:06 PM
 
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Exit the 2 stupid wars Bush got us into - but looks like Obama is afraid of Gates.
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Old 09-12-2009, 07:15 PM
 
Location: Western North Carolina
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Maybe we can pay for it with all the money Bush said we would make from the oil revenues once we occupied, er, invaded Iraq. You know, the war that was going to pay for itself and all. The one that wasn't going to cost us anything. After all, Bush was a conservative, because Repulicans are against big government and all of that, right?
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Old 09-12-2009, 08:03 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Maybe we can pay for it with all the money Bush said we would make from the oil revenues once we occupied, er, invaded Iraq. You know, the war that was going to pay for itself and all. The one that wasn't going to cost us anything. After all, Bush was a conservative, because Repulicans are against big government and all of that, right?
Well China marched right in and signed deals for that oil so we are SOL.
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