Clinton Health Plan Could Garnish Wages Posted: 10 months ago by Marli
Clinton has not always specified the enforcement measures she would embrace for universal health care, but when pressed on ABC's "This Week," she said: "I think there are a number of mechanisms" that are possible, including "going after people's wages, automatic enrollment."
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Posted: 10 months ago by Pocksucket:
Sooooo.....
Where else is the money supposed to come from again?
Universal health coverage is going to cost money, and that money will have to come from the earning population as some form of taxation.
That's kinda the way it works in the absence of magic money trees.
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Posted: 10 months ago by gammerus:
sounds like just what we need during an economic crisis.
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Posted: 10 months ago by DoggySpew:
Note that this system is used with succes in pretty much any country that uses it.
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Posted: 10 months ago by Inc0m:
When people say "the Democrats are moving toward socialism" people guffaw and claim exaggerated polemic, but you see something like this and I don't know what else to call it. Government: "Buy our crappy crap...or else"
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Posted: 10 months ago by DerAlt1:
Whether you like or dislike the idea, try to figure the odds of getting a notion like this past both houses of congress.
Now try to analyze all the "promises" the candidates make, and I do mean all of them, and see how many pass the "Both Houses" test.
Most of them are not going to happen. Ever.
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Posted: 10 months ago by dollyllama:
Hmmm, 51% of my taxes towards defense spending or national healthcare.
NO BRAINER.
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Posted: 10 months ago by spamTrap:
« Inc0m : When people say "the Democrats are moving toward socialism" people guffaw and claim exaggerated polemic, but you see something like this and I don't know what else to call it. Government: "Buy our crappy crap...or else" That is not socialism.
With the same effort you could say they are going toward Anarchism, because that is not Anarchism either.
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Posted: 10 months ago by germz:
please no
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Posted: 10 months ago by Fanatic:
What dolly said. By this logic, you should already be outraged that the government is "garnishing" [sic] up to 33% of your wages to pay for itself. Well, not itself, actually, just part of itself, plus interest on the debt it's going into to borrow money to pay for the rest of itself.
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Posted: 10 months ago by fugazi:
Again....Edwards was the only man for the job...
ClintObama=Republicrats
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Posted: 10 months ago by TraumaMamma:
« Fanatic : What dolly said. By this logic, you should already be outraged that the government is "garnishing" [sic] up to 33% of your wages to pay for itself. Well, not itself, actually, just part of itself, plus interest on the debt it's going into to borrow money to pay for the rest of itself. Indeed. We have been fleeced illegally for YEARS!
The Law that Never Was
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Posted: 10 months ago by PulsisX:
If I am going to be a serf for the feudal HMOs then I want a field to work in instead of an office.
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Posted: 10 months ago by dollyllama:
« PulsisX : If I am going to be a serf for the feudal HMOs then I want a field to work in instead of an office. Tote that barge, lift that bale.
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Posted: 10 months ago by chinook:
« spamTrap : That is not socialism.
With the same effort you could say they are going toward Anarchism, because that is not Anarchism either. Thank-you. I get annoyed when these terms are used so loosely and incorrectly.
I get frustrated when people say Canada's gov't is socialist - because we're pretty far from it.
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Posted: 10 months ago by gammerus:
« DoggySpew : Note that this system is used with succes in pretty much any country that uses it. If you can call that succes.
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Posted: 10 months ago by spamTrap:
« PulsisX : If I am going to be a serf for the feudal HMOs then I want a field to work in instead of an office. Have you ever worked on a field? I am happy with the office. Now I know for what was the mandatory field work good. 10 consecutive workdays in each academic year. Nobody in sane mind wanted to be a farmer.
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Posted: 10 months ago by tundramonkey:
« spamTrap : Have you ever worked on a field? I am happy with the office. Now I know for what was the mandatory field work good. 10 consecutive workdays in each academic year. Nobody in sane mind wanted to be a farmer. I want my field work back. I positively hate being in an office all day.
I also know lots of people who want to be the farmers they are, including a few of my siblings. Farming is their life and they love it.
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Posted: 10 months ago by SpamTrap:
« tundramonkey : I want my field work back. I positively hate being in an office all day.
I also know lots of people who want to be the farmers they are, including a few of my siblings. Farming is their life and they love it. Well, I would not mind either as long as I can hire Mexicans to do the tough part of the job.
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