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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 08:55 AM Original message |
If we got rid of private insurance and mandated public insurance wouldn't that be a tax? |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 09:11 AM Response to Original message |
1. That is an honest and good question.. because he did campaign against mandates |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 09:21 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I thought he would eventuallly need to tax further down because |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 10:38 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. The top 1% control double the net worth of the bottom 80%. (34% vs. 19%) |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 12:04 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. But we are not taxed on net worth. |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-26-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Sad but not true. |
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dpbrown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
3. To conflate your thought - a mandate that insurance companies profit |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 09:54 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Me too. |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 10:16 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Not a contradiction at all. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 10:51 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. A tax is different. |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 12:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. That's correct |
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jeanpalmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-26-09 04:28 PM Response to Reply #5 |
18. dispsy |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-26-09 08:43 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Works like so |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
6. Basically, it's a cost-plus contract. |
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tinrobot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 12:32 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. ...and the cost of bandages will skyrocket. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 12:48 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Exactly. |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-26-09 10:40 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. insurance companies |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
9. Mandating private insurance = tax + insurance co profits + maintaining permanent cartel |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-26-09 02:17 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Which will, in turn, write checks to the politicians. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-26-09 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
15. I notice there are no direct factual replies contradicting this |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-26-09 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
17. Shh! Only 'leftists' ask those pesky questions... n/t |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-26-09 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
21. Yeah...I've said this before. By and large it's been ignored. n/t |
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andym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-26-09 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
22. Not necessarily, the government could still sell "insurance" |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-26-09 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
23. If I were paying a tax for a public program |
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