Re: Half of Texas Republicans want to Secede
"Medicare does not overlap with private insurance"
as of the last change to Medicare, private does compete with Medicare, is why dubya had to subsidize private insurance with $50B so their lobbyists wouldn't kill the Medicare modification.
btw, dubya's mod to Medicare increased govt bill by about $11B/year.
dubya's Medicare mod also forbid the govt from getting competing bids for drugs
So all you wrongies who "hate govt" please note that the Repugs intentionally fuck up govt to be "business friendly".
Re: Half of Texas Republicans want to Secede
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Blake
uhh, as far as state and national income tax, you're just playing with semantics.
Yeah, that was the point.
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Blake
What new revenue stream are you referring to and exactly how would we still likely be paying less taxes overall?
A Texas income tax would be the new revenue stream. That was a pretty easy flow to follow there...
Of course, the entire tax code would be rewritten, as would the entire Texas Constitution (see TX BoR amendment #1). In general, we'd probably (IMO) end up with the same sales tax, much lower property taxes, and a Texas income tax (well, and excise taxes and all that crap could go either way).
It'd still end up less than the current sales tax, property tax, and federal income tax, though. Considering a large part of this secession BS amounts to complaints about taxes, the overall tax burden on Texans would have to decrease for them to be justified.
Re: Half of Texas Republicans want to Secede
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boutons_deux
"Medicare does not overlap with private insurance"
as of the last change to Medicare, private does compete with Medicare, is why dubya had to subsidize private insurance with $50B so their lobbyists wouldn't kill the Medicare modification.
Not very much (hence why I said "for the most part" that you so nicely cut out of your quoting me). Medicare has a lot of restrictions on how and why it can be used and who by. Granted, it's been opened up a bit in recent years.
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boutons_deux
btw, dubya's mod to Medicare increased govt bill by about $11B/year.
dubya's Medicare mod also forbid the govt from getting competing bids for drugs
So all you wrongies who "hate govt" please note that the Repugs intentionally fuck up govt to be "business friendly".
LOL. Okay, so you are going to win an argument with people who often believe Medicare is just plain no business of the government by arguing that a leader they liked as little as you screwed it up?
Bush definitely messed it up. At least he tried to reform a broken system, but tried to help too many things at once and really pooched the job (a common occurance with him). I'm certainly not going to argue against that.
