Reply #21: No.We have plenty of money elsewhere. #1The Pentagon.#2Repeal Bush's tax cuts.#3Insist corporations

[Hekate]

...pay their fair share for the privilege of calling themselves American and using our military to protect their overseas interests.

There is money enough to fund education, health, the environment, and every other human need -- if we stop spending over half the budget on war, and if everyone pays their fair share.

Of COURSE we are all willing to tax ourselves to see that everyone in the country has adequate access to good health care. But the average person already pays proportionally much more in taxes than the truly wealthy. We are already paying much more for the health-insurance racket than any other people on the planet, and getting less for it.

Hekate