SS is a tax, there's no product purchased. For paying that tax now, you become entitled to future return payments. It does nothing for you in the immediate, and in fact may never do anything for you period. It's a monetary transaction.
a nationalized health care plan is nothing more than paying into a system of entitlements, it's just a quicker payout than SS. i.e. - you don't have to wait until you're 65+ to cash in. the real problem is using the powers of congress to mandate buying *private* insurance instead of just creating a medicare style program that will cover people who don't already have the insurance to begin with.
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ObamaCare's Legal Death Spiral Continues.....great news for America!
- 08/06/2011 10:04:24 PM
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- 08/06/2011 10:04:24 PM
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I'm not informed enough to comment on most of this, but can someone explain that last line to me?
- 08/06/2011 11:25:49 PM
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just a guess but
- 08/06/2011 11:40:44 PM
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Yeah, and I guess that's what I was missing (see my response to Tom).
- 09/06/2011 07:13:00 AM
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A lot of the debate from the centered around how many of those people there are.
- 10/06/2011 01:15:19 AM
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"...the government mandate to have health insurance was unlike any law in American history"...
- 09/06/2011 05:24:56 AM
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wait....
- 09/06/2011 04:34:13 PM
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Guess what the "I" in FICA is; the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program is insurance
- 10/06/2011 12:34:04 AM
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Re: wait....
- 10/06/2011 02:36:33 AM
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if you want to opt out just work for a local government
- 09/06/2011 06:01:06 PM
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a few high profile cases does not equal "most" in any sense of the word *NM*
- 10/06/2011 02:38:26 AM
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Actually, there's an even more relevant example.
- 09/06/2011 08:01:18 PM
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That's the best link I've ever seen posted anywhere on the internet. *NM*
- 09/06/2011 08:26:02 PM
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That's a very flawed example
- 09/06/2011 09:06:24 PM
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Did you read the Act itself?
- 10/06/2011 04:04:39 PM
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Yes, did you get the 'foriegn port' part of sentence, or did you stop reading after the comma?
- 10/06/2011 06:11:27 PM
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Re: Yes, did you get the 'foriegn port' part of sentence, or did you stop reading after the comma?
- 10/06/2011 06:54:29 PM
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It might help if you clarified what your point is
- 10/06/2011 08:05:30 PM
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besides it was still just a condition for a specific job not a blanket requirement for breathing
- 10/06/2011 08:36:07 PM
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In other words, this is as "unprecedented" as filibustering Bush judicial nominees (i.e. it's not).
- 10/06/2011 12:55:17 AM
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Oh well. Living in a shit hole country is something I love and a chance to change that is BS.
- 12/06/2011 05:21:25 PM
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