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freddie mertz

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Fri Jan-01-10 02:15 PM
Response to Reply #67

69. In the Senate version, funding for those subsidies comes from a middle-class benefits tax.

Which means that in addition to forcing middle and working class citizens to buy lousy, overpriced, and under-regulated private insurance, those in (mostly) unionized jobs with good policies will be forced to pay for it through reductions in take-home pay and/or their family's health benefits.

This is bad, corrupt, and regressive legislation, and it will have socially and politically suicidal consequences if it goes through in the present form.

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