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May. 16th, 2011 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumWhen is a tax increase not a tax increase?
I don't know. It seems that reducing subsidies on oil companies is "a tax increase", but reducing them on people getting medical care is, "a needed reduction in spending".
That, at least is the message the Republicans in the House and Senate are sending me. Calls to recoup moneys being paid out to oil companies are being vigorously fought by John Boehner, who has said, "raising taxes" is "off the table" to deal with the perceived imminent disaster caused by our national deficit.
Never mind that passing a new tax cut (the Bush Tax Cuts) was seen as, "responsible".
Never mind that the proposal to move Medicare to a "voucher" system which won't cover the costs of the insurance it replaces (while almost certainly increasing overhead, and moving money to insurers.... the same insurers doing things like, "purging" small businesses who have the gall to hire employees who actually use the insurance the paid for).
No, that you see, is, "Financial Responsibility", and "looking out for the future", where gas will continue to be cheap, and people won't be paying good tax dollars to get something they personally need.
No, they will be spending billions to see to it that the folks who brought you The entertainments of Deepwater Horizon, flammable water continue to get a government paycheck, on top of their record profits.
I don't know. It seems that reducing subsidies on oil companies is "a tax increase", but reducing them on people getting medical care is, "a needed reduction in spending".
That, at least is the message the Republicans in the House and Senate are sending me. Calls to recoup moneys being paid out to oil companies are being vigorously fought by John Boehner, who has said, "raising taxes" is "off the table" to deal with the perceived imminent disaster caused by our national deficit.
Never mind that passing a new tax cut (the Bush Tax Cuts) was seen as, "responsible".
Never mind that the proposal to move Medicare to a "voucher" system which won't cover the costs of the insurance it replaces (while almost certainly increasing overhead, and moving money to insurers.... the same insurers doing things like, "purging" small businesses who have the gall to hire employees who actually use the insurance the paid for).
No, that you see, is, "Financial Responsibility", and "looking out for the future", where gas will continue to be cheap, and people won't be paying good tax dollars to get something they personally need.
No, they will be spending billions to see to it that the folks who brought you The entertainments of Deepwater Horizon, flammable water continue to get a government paycheck, on top of their record profits.
