"nom=de=plume" wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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nope. taxes are going up on those who make more than 250K...the folks
who benefitted from the recent bubble

So, you are putting a price tag on moral responsibility?

Eisboch



It's a matter of ability. Those who make lots of money have the ability
to pay more. Where are you getting the morals argument? No, don't
answer.

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Nom=de=Plume


I will anyway. I paid for this computer and internet service, Ms. Plume.

Darn it.

Earlier in this thread I made the statement that I believe that those
with the ability to pay have a moral responsibility to help those that
cannot when it comes to life threatening or disabling condition medical
care. I repeat. Medical care.

Perhaps there is a moral requirement, but since it can't be legislated, it
ends up being an individual choice. The health of the country (medical and
fiscal) should not be dependent upon the whims of a few.

I do *not* support general tax based programs to provide or subsidize
free health care insurance via private or government insurance programs.

I do support programs that ensure the health of the country, as I stated
just above. To do less, is not moral in my opinion. There's no other way
to ensure our health, at least nothing I know of. Perhaps you can suggest
something?

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Nom=de=Plume

Well, since I believe we all have a moral responsibility to help our fellow
man to the degree we can, I have no problem with a tax program that provides
for a fund intended to be paid directly to hospitals for services rendered
for life threatening conditions. No government or private insurance
companies involved.

The difference in what I am proposing is that the fund provided by taxes
pays for the medical care given in these situations. It does *not* pay for
insurance policy premiums. That's the problem with our existing system ...
insurance companies ripping off the insured with big profits derived from
the premium payments and a reluctance to pay out when required. A
government run version of an insurance company would simply create another
huge bureaucracy consisting of tens of thousands new government employees.
They all have to be paid per federal guidelines from the tax dollars. Very
inefficient use of tax money intended to provide necessary medical care to
those who can't afford it or the insurance to provide for it.

Make sense?

Eisboch