I try hard to come here and talk about RC, but there are things I can't resist, this is one. I can not tell you how thrilled I am to see everyone talking about this in such a manor and that so many see what is really happening. This is the best thing I have seen all week.
Just to add my 2 cents.
I won't talk CBO numbers.
I won't get into the administrations math.
Don't need to talk to the power grab that is occurring.
And never mind about the Constitutionality of all of this.
And how has this worked out else where in the world, most countries are going broke. Too many promises and not enough revenue to meet them.
Never mind what they missed, like opening up commerce state to state, and some tort reform and better pricing rules with medical providers.
I just wish people would think about it in terms of services already received by the government:
Do you like going to the Post Office? (This is an indictment of the system as a whole and a few employees and not all of the individuals that do the work. I have friends that work there and they bust hump.)
Do you like dealing with/ is it easy to get things straight with the IRS/medicare/social security - disability? As an accountant by trade I have seen people do nothing wrong and spend years getting the IRS straight on there filings! <---no exaggeration. Had a client went from a contract employee with a company to a regular employee with the same company and the IRS could not figure out why he did not owe self employment taxes. After 2 years plus and them threatening to seize his assets he had to hire a tax attorney. At his cost of coarse.
Is it fun and trip to look forward to, to go to the DMV? (and yes I am taking aim at all of the DMV I hate that freakin place, it is the black hole of time.)
Would you like to rely on the VA for your health care?
Do you think the public schools do a good job in your opinion? Where I live we spend about 15K per child, 110 million on 2 new high schools.....51% graduation rate. And many of them can't functionally do math, read or write. And with the budget short falls in our schools here, so far the only programs they are sure to get rid of are the programs for accelerated/gifted/college bound students! <-----can't punish success fast enough.
Other than our brave men and women in the military the government does nothing well to me.
And don't let the avatar fool you, I am just as feed up with Republicans as I am Democrats! Nothing but a bunch of liars and whores.
Government has its place, but not entangled in our lives like this!