You're right it's all about winners and losers. That's the point I'm making. Just don't complain to me that people will be losing their insurance under a GOP plan. No one's going to be losing anything. They'll merely be forced to do what Geekbabe and I are doing already...working our butts off in order to pay for health insurance. Don't tell me they can't afford it. We can't afford it either.
You're right it's all about winners and losers. That's the point I'm making. Just don't complain to me that people will be losing their insurance under a GOP plan. No one's going to be losing anything. They'll merely be forced to do what Geekbabe and I are doing already...working our butts off in order to pay for health insurance. Don't tell me they can't afford it. We can't afford it either.
The day is going to come when I won't be able to work...plus look at kids with complex medical needs, as things stand one parent serves as a constant caregiver while the other is most likely working multiple jobs. What about older people facing 5X premiums? The disabled? Premature babies? None of those people will be able to just " work their butts off"
He's trying to compare dirt cheap life in Ohio to boston, lol.
Keep trying GB, maybe it'll get through.
Generally speaking for taxes, unless you make well above six figures you're not really subsidizing anyone. Always amusing when low iq/edu trumpsters love to whine they're being bilked to pay for welfare queens when the largely blue demographic are subsidizing the white nationalists.
Exactly right. Taxing only billionaires won't fund shit 'cause there's so few of them, hence my point. This isn't about billionaires.
As I've stated before, as a percentage I'm taxed a great deal
You're right it's all about winners and losers. That's the point I'm making. Just don't complain to me that people will be losing their insurance under a GOP plan. No one's going to be losing anything. They'll merely be forced to do what Geekbabe and I are doing already...working our butts off in order to pay for health insurance. Don't tell me they can't afford it. We can't afford it either.
No, she has insurance through work. You can't just opt out of employer healthcare and jump on the government provided one."Can't afford it" knows no city. It can apply anywhere. As for Boston doesn't Romneycare deal with this?
Your point is duly noted. OTOH, it's Repubs' radical right billionaire donors leaning on them the hardest & having the most to gain. Their power within the Party can make or break any candidate they choose. Play along & they'll help you out, otherwise they'll sic the Teahadis on your ass in the primary. The AFP & every other right wing media manipulator will bury you under a tsunami of slime.
Kiss the ring, you fools- the sphincter ring.
It's all the end result of indulging the insurgency of the plutocracy & the concentration of wealth far too much. They now think they own the govt because of their economic clout & can do with it as they will. Decades of poisoning people's minds & buying Repub politicians has been a very good investment for them. They'll likely plow any tax cuts right back into the effort, too.
Satisfying their lust for profit & power won't leave much behind for the rest of us, bet on that.
No, she has insurance through work. You can't just opt out of employer healthcare and jump on the government provided one.
You're affording it just fine. Geek babe has it much tougher than you do.
Bootstraps! They fix everything!
Comparing yourself to Geekbabe won't get you any sympathy. Lots of people would willingly trade places with you & be thrilled to pay your taxes & insurance rates. That can't be said of her. You're living well & she's got the dark work 'til you die version of the American Dream.
What subsidy am I receiving?Which is to say you don't actually pay that much per se, ie. the libtards you mouth off about are subsidizing you.
I really don't see the Republicans cornering the market on billionaires. I don't see billionaires like George Soros, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Paul Allen or Jeff Bezos supporting Republican causes. In many cases I see just the opposite.
What subsidy am I receiving?
Those that are calling for universal health care, single payer, Medicare for all. Pick your term. They all mean the gov't taking over the entire health system
I feel your pain in having to pay such a huge COBRA bill. I'm in a similar situation.
I'm not looking for sympathy and I don't think Geekbabe is either. If you saw this clearly you'd see that Republicans are suffering under the current system too. If you dislike the COBRA laws then look no further than Obamacare. We're operating under that law right now
When did they cajole & buy off congress to cut their own taxes at the societal cost of dumping millions out of healthcare coverage? They're not whining about how oppressed they are by unbearable taxes.
Right wing billionaires are another matter entirely & that's who repubs serve. They're high priests at the altar of greed.
Repubs just don't understand why they're suffering- it's their leadership's slavish devotion to the financial elite over the last few decades & the shift in national income share to the top.
Consult table 5-
https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2015-update
Since 1980, the income share of the lower 75% has fallen by a quarter, 11% of the total. The income share of the top 1% has more than doubled, rising by nearly 11%.
That redistribution of income has been very damaging to the middle class but you wouldn't know it the way conservatives keep voting for that good ol' trickle down feeling
The sad truth is that the only way we'll get that back is with taxes & redistribution of our own making. The ACA is part of that. What's wrong with the ACA is that it doesn't go far enough.
You're fighting cancer as well?