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The idea that $37 billion a year is going to have a significant effect on the economy one way or the other is ludicrous on its face, especially since it be recycled into health care spending which creates employment as surely as whatever it would have been spent on otherwise does.

Bleeds Blue on November 19, 2009 at 11:10 AM

Thank you for providing this self-refuting commentary on Keynsian economics. If spending $37 billion dollars on healthcare spending creates employment as surely as whatever it would have been spent on otherwise does, the obvious correlary is that whatever it was being spent on before created employment, too.

Therefore, there is no net advantage to taxing and spending as an effort to “stimulate” the economy, as the money that is taken in taxes was already creating employment to begin with. Moving it from one place to another isn’t creating anything, it’s just moving it around.

So let’s repeal the remaining “stimulus” funding that hasn’t been pounded down a rathole already, shall we?

Question the premises they’re putting forth. Requiring, at the barrel of a gun, the labor of one individual who can produce for the benefit of another individual who can’t (or won’t) is the very definition of slavery.

The looters know only one thing, looting. The moochers don’t even know that much, they simply know how to vote for looters. And as it turns out, that’s all they have to know.

Do NOT let them talk you into giving up your freedom by making you think that producing is evil and needs to be taxed at the exhorbitant rate they’re demanding (again, at the barrel of a gun). The moochers have done nothing to earn what you produced, and the looters know you are the one keeping them alive.

If you do give in to their guilt, YOU are the one responsible for keeping the status quo in place, YOU are the one who has sold yourself into slavery to people who hate you for your ability to produce what they consume.

Demand your freedom, refuse to play by rules designed to kill you, in a game you can’t ever win.

Isn’t it time for HotAir to link that thoughtful lady again? Failing that, if anyone has that link, I sure would like it.

The number of Unempolyed Americans approaching the number of Employed Illegal Aliens!

What would passing free healthScare for all and Amnesty for all do to help this situtation?

A.)Unionize Doctors and Nurses so union pension funds won’t go broke?
B.)Solve the Illegal Alien problem by makin them all legal?
C.) Guarantee Dimwit majorities for life by legalizing third world border crossers, enrolling them in free benefits for life and registering them as good little Dimwhit voters?
D.) Bring to its’ knees the Freedom Loving America Pinnochio, Michelle, Holder, Rev.Wright, Bill Ayers dispise?
E.) All of the above?

Man, if there’s one thing Democrats know it’s the economy…… RAISING TAXES!

JoeinTX on November 19, 2009 at 11:02 AM

fify

BadgerHawk on November 19, 2009 at 12:36 PM

Clears up everything. Thank you.

The part that won’t make sense to people is taxes preceding benefits.

That’s a complete change and simply won’t be acceptable right now in a deep recession.

AnninCA on November 19, 2009 at 12:27 PM

The taxes have preceeded benefits under every version of this bill. It’s the only way they could get the CBO scoring to look even close to deficit neutral.

Dark-Star on November 19, 2009 at 12:24 PM

Fair enough.

There are some serious tax increases coming down the pipe, and not just for the ‘uber-rich’. President Obama vowing to get all crazy on the deficit starting with his State of the Union address in January was the first laying of the ground work.

This health bill will raises your insurance premiums, even if if you don’t make enough to get hit directly with the new taxes. It raises taxes on medical devices; taxes which ultimately get passed onto the consumers of those devices. Even with all the additional taxes, under the rosiest scenario, it still adds to the deficit by hiding the ‘doctor fix’.

They’re proposing to let the Bush tax cuts expire. Not just the highest marginal rate, but ALL the tax cuts, including the capital gains reduction. So you’re a middle class guy who’s worked hard and saved? Doesn’t matter. Those dividends in your retirement are getting taxed higher.

There are countless other smaller initiatives, from property taxes to soda taxes, to increases in witholding, that Ed could fill a week’s worth of posts with.

If you think only the ‘uber-rich’ are going to get hit you’re being dangerously naive.

Let’s understand that you can have economic equality or prosperity. You can’t have both. It’s never happened and never will.

RadClown on November 19, 2009 at 12:30 PM

That depends heavily on one’s definitions of ‘equality’ and ‘prosperity’.

But with the definitions the moonbats-in-power are using, we’ll all be ‘equal’ like a bunch of cows in a slaughterhouse.

Let’s understand that you can have economic equality or prosperity. You can’t have both. It’s never happened and never will.

That’s a complete change and simply won’t be acceptable right now in a deep recession.

What I find amusing is that $370 billion tax increase is nothing, but Bush’s $300 billion tax cut was the end of the world (and still is, to liberals).

lorien1973 on November 19, 2009 at 12:14 PM

And let’s not forget, that $300 B tax cut goes away next year. So, on top of all the new ones will be the old ones being re-instated. But not a peep out of the libs on this. That would make it a $670 B tax “increase“!!

Some kind of “Hope & Change” there, eh??

Dude. Are you doing this on purpose?

BadgerHawk on November 19, 2009 at 12:23 PM

Asking honest questions? Yes I am.

Also suffering from ‘morning brain’, as well.

He’s an Obama supporter. Do you really have to ask that question?

angryed on November 19, 2009 at 12:19 PM

More @$$uming from an angry @$$hole.

Voted third-party in ’08, saw 0bama’s many disasters coming a mile away. Will cast my ballot for either one of the P’s – Paul or Palin – depending on who has the better shot at winning when the election finally arrives.

Just asking, are those percentages from already existing taxes or just additional ones being proposed?

Dark-Star on November 19, 2009 at 12:13 PM

Dude. Are you doing this on purpose?

He’s an Obama supporter. Do you really have to ask that question?

angryed on November 19, 2009 at 12:19 PM

Ah, more ASSuming by an angry asshole.

Wrongo, wingnut. Voted third-party in ’08 out of disgust at McShame, will either vote for Paul or Palin next time, depending on who has the better shot at POTUS.

OMG. Really? Are you not employed?

lorien1973 on November 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM

He’s an Obama supporter. Do you really have to ask that question?