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Derg said:
Taxpayer-supported public city bus and a city street? :)
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Im a big supporter of public transit actually. IMO its a great use of public money and is good for the enviroment. True story, my parents own three cars and my dad still takes the bus to work three days a week (my brother and sister still live at home and drive).

I'm not against all taxes it's just that somewhere in the last 3 decades we reached a point where it gone too far. It doesn't take a 39% tax bracket to pay for public transit and paved roads. :)
 
HVYMETALDRVR said:
Well what if you had pay the food truck for tacos... Even if you weren't going to eat any tacos for the next two months? :)
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When you pay for the insurance, you have the insurance. You're not waiting to get the insurance two months from now. Bad argument.

IIRC The Supreme Court decided not to strike down the ACA as unconstitutional because it was a "tax."
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Wrong. The ACA isn't a tax. The penalty that you are fined for refusing to comply with the law is a tax (according to Justice Roberts). Not nearly the same thing.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
When you pay for the insurance, you have the insurance. You're not waiting to get the insurance two months from now. Bad argument.



Wrong. The ACA isn't a tax. The penalty that you are fined for refusing to comply with the law is a tax (according to Justice Roberts). Not nearly the same thing.
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Aye yi yi...

Now we're going in circles again. The ACA is a tax and if you don't comply your levied a fine which might as well be considered a tax. Back to my original statement when the government forces money out of pocket I consider it a tax. If you want to call it something else be my guest. You don't get to keep it.

I say all this, but Im exempt bc of the VA, thank God. Insurance premiums at my employer went from 79 to 200/month. And Im a single non smoker.
 
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Maybe I'm derailing here, but an honest question I have (easy @darrenf I'm just doing the Yoda voice).

Our medical system now is a bit of a joke compared to the rest of the world, and this may help alleviate the problem now. Is there a concern that 20years down the line we stifle innovation at the ground level (doctors, specialist included) because we will regulate the hell out of the industry? I'm not trying to get you to roll your eyes, I like the ACA because it fixes a dire problem (my opinion backed up with stats that I agree with). Just follow me on an example. Airlines were state run, and wildly expensive compared to the product. Once the industry was deregulated (and the employees forever screwed in the buttocks) the industry was able to create a robust network with more service (seats) for less cost (something like 1/3 the cost). Does this example translate?

I know I wouldn't want the roads or defense to go private, just because I see those as infrastructure. Should we regard health care as infrastructural? (Or) Are we trying to privatize the farms in the nation (another industry that can't innovate to compete on a global level)?

It seems like Health Care should be infrastructural to me, so you want to take away some of the economic penalties. Can we live in this middle ground (not entirely public, not entirely private) "Obama Care" effectively into the future?
 
HVYMETALDRVR said:
Aye yi yi...

Now we're going in circles again. The ACA is a tax and if you don't comply your levied a fine which might as well be considered a tax. Back to my original statement when the government forces money out of pocket I consider it a tax. If you want to call it something else be my guest. You don't get to keep it.
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You can call a Pinto a BMW all you want, but it's still a Pinto. The fact that you call it a tax doesn't make it so. It's just silly rhetoric. And not even good rhetoric, at that.
 
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