Question of the Day | 06/21/2009 11:00 pm
Would you support a tax on those who receive "gold-plated" health insurance from their employer?

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Lucinda: Good health benefits should be encouraged.
I agree with you 100%. Taxing "gold-plated" health insurance is just a step away from taxing all private insurance plans. Then all percs, like a company car or extended disability benefits or whatever. Enough with the taxes, already !!! Cut back on the spending — return the unused stimulus package back to the treasury.
deber: fix the medicare…
The reality is the current administration does not want to fix medicare… they see single-payer systems as flawed. They envision all taxpayers being covered by a single system of rewards to the medical system for keeping people well. That works for the majority of folks who are born healthy and never age (die before chronic ailments set in).
If you have a minute, go to americanthinker.com and read The Feetus and the Fly - A Fable. It’s a quick read and is well-worth your time.
Actually the Welfare and Medicare systems though very broken get a drop in the bucket compare to our military and star wars program. Millions go towards programs for the poor. Billions are poored into the military. As for fraud so very many of those charities that are for the ‘poor’ are frauds. They need to be investigated. Especially some of the best known. People need to start listening when we the poor say we have went to these so called charities, agencies and programs and were turned away. There is so much corruption when it comes to the poor. But we the poor are the ones being blamed. It is not my fault if someone says I called around for you here is where you go to get this. and I go and am told, "We don’t do that. Who ever told you that was wrong." That has happend to me so often I have found myself going in circles when calling for help. It would get to the point where I was told they couldn’t help and they would give me the number of another agencie and I would have to tell them that I just got off the phone with their recommended agency. Ou administration knows exactly what is going on. It is the public they have fooled. People need to stop blindly beleiveing what they are told and start taking a look around them. Use common sense.
Under current tax law most "perks" such as a company car also available for personal use are taxable for the non-business use.
If there’s one other area that could use reform it is the tax code - preferably a uniform percentage income tax, on all income, above a livable base amount - say $15,000-$18,000 with absolutely no loopholes, deductions, or tax havens allowed.
Marjorie…did you see how annoyed Obama got when he was questioned about his smoking? He was not pleased at all….then he answered that he was 95% smoke free…what in the heck?
He can not even admit that he can’t quit smoking. I guess that is just an all to human fault for his highness…
I guess that means that only 3% of his lungs can get cancer? How funny…it really irritated him that something has control over him…he tries so hard to hide his smoking.
Will that make him ineligilble for some health care coverages? I mean…a smoker after all…
Deber…he will be a text book example of a narcissit gone wild, when his administration is said and done.
It is so weird and creepy how annoyed he gets when someone disagrees with him, or dares to go off script and ask him a queation that challenges him.
The dudes a freak….
Kelly, I’ve been smoke free for 48 hrs., no patch, no gum, lots of Ice Tea and popcorn though. I am not going the way of my mother or the dinasour. I’ve had enough cancer to last anyones life time.
Look at poor Farrah and she never smoked, I’m not going like that, I’d kill myself first.
thanks for the encouragement, it helped alot, i’ll keep you informed.
You will do it Deniseann…you will. Screw that cancer…screw those Tobacco companies and their plans to addict you for life! Keep it up!
Tea and pocorn…more tea and more popcorn…. ;]
Deniseann…Joel Osteen had a message this morning that reminded me of your struggle. He said to "live your faith with action"….
Sooooooo how about you thank God for helping you to quite smoking as if it is a foregone conclusion? Thank him for removing your desire and for replacing your addiction with a new motive…
Act on the faith that you will be healed of this…prayers of thanks for God’s intervention and success. Act as if it is done, pray as if it is done.
Best to you, as always ~

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