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Anyone who thinks this can be passed without major tax hikes is a fool.
Isn't he already breaking that promise by wanting to go to Carbon Credits? Just a tax with a different name that will affect all!
White House adviser won't say no to tax increase
(AP) – 5 hours ago
WASHINGTON — A top White House adviser says he can't rule out a tax on middle-class Americans to pay for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
As a candidate, Obama pledged not to raise taxes for most Americans. But economic adviser Larry Summers says he cannot promise that Obama will stick to that campaign pledge.
Summers says it's too early to tell what will be needed to pay for a broad restructuring of how people receive health care.
Summers says controlling health care costs will be crucial to reducing the deficit. He says the health of the economy is directly tied to how Americans take care of their own health.
Summers appeared on CBS's "Face the Nation" and NBC's "Meet the Press."
Anyone who thinks this can be passed without major tax hikes is a fool.
Isn't he already breaking that promise by wanting to go to Carbon Credits? Just a tax with a different name that will affect all!
Yes I can't believe the fools who bought his hype and lies.
"how Americans take care of their own health"
True.
Who wants to pay for somebody else's self-inflicted diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular, smokers) for atrophied fat-asses who can't keep their gluttonous mouths shut?
You nailed it we need a Fat tax.
If nationalized health care passes, I'm all for that.
How about a one-for-one?
Make a persons tax rate on income equal to their body fat percentage?
This would be political suicide and obama knows it. I guess you idiots are just going to have to wait/hope to see if this comes to fruition.
Yep base it on BMI.
BMI.Yep base it on BMI.
More proof our healthcare system is currently run by morons (unless you consider LeBron James overweight).
I would love that!!!
I was not a fan of Bush, but come on now it's Bush's fault that obama lied? Was he aware of the war in Iraq? Did anyone tell him about TARP? He either made a statement without the facts (Crowely) or He is horrible at math, or HE LIED. Denying he lied ruins any crediblity you might of had.
Here are a couple more lies from the chosen one.
1. End income tax for seniors making less than $50,000
2. Allow five days of public comment before signing bills
3. Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials
4. Create a $3,000 tax credit for companies that add jobs
5. Allow penalty-free hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009
6. Recognize the Armenian genocide
7. Negotiate health care reform in public sessions televised on C-SPAN
As for fiscal responsiblity, he turned the dems in congress loose and granted them everything they ever wanted.
• $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD's.
• $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.
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• $125 million for the Washington sewer system.
• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
• $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.
• $75 million for "smoking cessation activities."
• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings.
• $500 million for state and local fire stations.
• $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.
• $1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs.
• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
• $412 million for CDC buildings and property.
• $500 million for building and repairing National Ins utes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
• $160 million for "paid volunteers" at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
• $5.5 million for "energy efficiency initiatives" at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
• $850 million for Amtrak.
• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
• $75 million to construct a "security training" facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.
except bmi's a crock of anyone with too much muscle would be considered overweightYep base it on BMI.
Okay fine Body Fat then.
So would I. Not long ago, I used to vary between 5% and 10%. Now I'm about 25% bodyfat, maybe more. It would motivate me to lose weight like other things haven't.I would love that!!!
I agree, the BMI index is a crock. There's a more accurate ways to determine Bodyfat than BMI. It can be done.
Anyway, we cannot simply use bodyfat alone. There is an optimum range by sex and age. Say for example the optimum range was 12% to 17%, someone has 25%, tax them 8%.
Color me unsurprised. This travesty of a healthcare plan, if passed (looks like it will), will require taxes to be raised on everyone.
The disincentive to work only grows. No Adult Left Behind.
"Read my lips" Mark another Obama lie.
hasn't happened yet therfore not a lie. Thanks for playing
These RATS steamroll bull agenda through the nation that we do not want and then force us to pay for it. Win or lose (country), they make off like bandits unaffected by their actions.
these snakes.
Hey now...
Careful who you call a snake. They aren't good enough to call snakes. They are lower than pond s .
Son, he already lied about raising taxes on people who make less than $250,000....this one is just more fuel for the fire. Thanks for playing. Try again.
"that we do not want"
100M+ people said they would use a public insurance option, making that insurance pool bigger than any private insurance company. Just a poll, so cut it in half. 50M, still dwarfs any private insurance company.
the private insurance companies, they aren't needed.
I already hear ur lame ass excuse for when he goes after even more of our taxes! BUSH.....
But, but, but, Iraq.
Here's why we'll probably get a tax increase.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_250108.html
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