Well, the House has just passed – pretty much along party lines – a bill that imposes regressive taxes on the poor and slashes money for the elderly to provide health care to the middle class. Wow. Just wow. I had no idea that they were also going after the seniors.
The House voted 225-204, mostly along partisan lines, to pass the legislation, which would add $50 billion to the decade-old State Children's Health Insurance Program and roll back years of Republican-driven changes to Medicare.
It would slash federal payments to private insurance companies that cover seniors under Medicare and shift money to doctors and benefits for low-income seniors.
This to provide health care to families earning $60,000 a year. You have got to be kidding. I posted about the regressive taxation that hammers the poorest Americans earlier today. If the voters voted for change in 2006, this is what they got. They may have a little change left out of each paycheck – until the next tax increase. Wow.
Tax corporations.
Just like we did back in the 50′s. You know, the time Reagan Republicans look back at fondly.