GOP Still Pushing “Screw The Poor” Strategy In Health Care Reform

12:42 pm EST August 24th, 2009 | Republicans | 16 Comments

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Republicans are pressing to reduce the size of tax credits for families with incomes that are below three times the poverty rate. They would also like to trim back insurance coverage mandates in hopes of lowering premiums that would have to be subsidized.

Republicans always insist they have nothing against the poor, then keep voting against the poor.

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16 Responses to “GOP Still Pushing “Screw The Poor” Strategy In Health Care Reform”

  1. SaveFarris says:
    August 24, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    How much income tax do families 3X under the poverty rate pay?

  2. Wek says:
    August 24, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    Even more than Ayn Rand, Judge Smails is the GOP’s most influential icon.

  3. Oliver Willis says:
    August 24, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    How much taxes as a part of their income do they pay in sales tax? Let’s just liquify them, right Save?

  4. SaveFarris says:
    August 24, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    If you have a problem with the amount of sales tax paid by the poor, then adjust the sales tax.

  5. icruise says:
    August 24, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    That would also reduce the amount paid by the rich, no?

  6. Oliver Willis says:
    August 24, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    Are you this thick? They pay taxes, which is my point. The lucky duckies argument died years ago.

  7. Buzz Killington says:
    August 24, 2009 at 2:15 pm

    I agree with Oliver. We should go ahead and change over to a consumption tax and simplify things for everyone, since income/sales/etc is just semantics.

  8. Sean D. Martin says:
    August 24, 2009 at 2:24 pm

    Buzz K.: We should go ahead and change over to a consumption tax and simplify things for everyone, since income/sales/etc is just semantics.

    Yes, that would be a much simpler way of ensuring the least wealthy pay the highest proportion of tax.

  9. Buzz Killington says:
    August 24, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    Snark aside, have you read up on the Fair Tax? I’d be interested to hear the concerns from the lefty side.

  10. Quaker in a Basement says:
    August 24, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    I’d be interested to hear the concerns from the lefty side.
    Here ya go. Go nuts.

  11. Sean D. Martin says:
    August 24, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    Buzz K.: Snark aside, have you read up on the Fair Tax? I’d be interested to hear the concerns from the lefty side.

    Yes, I have. And what isn’t there to be snarky about?

    A “Fair Tax” would be fair to whom? It’s progressive on consumption and while that may at first glance seem a good and fair idea (the more you consume the more you pay), it’s apparent to anyone who spends more than two seconds actually understanding it that it shifts the tax burden vastly towards those least able to afford it. It is extremely regressive on income.

    Those who make just enough to pay for the basic needs of life lose a far higher portion of their income to taxes than those who make more, those who are actually able to handle a higher tax burden without a significant effect on their living standard.

    And that’s “fair”?

  12. Buzz Killington says:
    August 24, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    Sean, how to the “pre-bates” not address that issue?

    And I was referring to my own previous snarky comment.

  13. freD says:
    August 24, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    I’d go for a regressive tax if progressive spending was mandated. But seriously folks, progressive taxation is also about keeping the economy steady, among other things.

  14. Sean D. Martin says:
    August 24, 2009 at 9:38 pm

    Buzz K.: Sean, how to the “pre-bates” not address that issue?

    That would be the “pre-bate” that’s based only on family size and not actual consumption level? In other words, a rebate of the consumption tax that isn’t based on consumption.

    Looks like it’s moving off the rails already.

  15. Quaker in a Basement says:
    August 24, 2009 at 11:26 pm

    Never mind the lefty view.

    Let conservative economist Bruce Bartlett explain why the Fair Tax is a load of cracked pottery.

  16. Sanjiv Sarwate says:
    August 25, 2009 at 10:49 am

    But you see, if we do things to HELP the poor, then the poor have no incentive to help themselves. In fact, we need to do everything we can to make life as difficult as possible for the poor, just to give them the maximum incentive to improve their lives. And if they can’t, it’s because they are Lazy and/or Immoral.

    (read above sarcastically)