Yesterday, Hot Air reported that Senator Max Baucus made the statement on the Senate floor that the "healthcare bill" is "an income shift, it is a shift, a leveling to help lower income middle income Americans" Baucus continued, "[t]oo often, much of late, the last couple three years the mal-distribution of income in America is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy, and the middle income class is left behind. Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America. This legislation will have the effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income in America."
I wonder how many of our Senators and Representatives who voted for this bill understood that this was one of the purposes of the bill. I also wonder how many of them actually believe that you help the poor by taking money from people who earned it and giving it to people who did not. I thought we were just helping people get good healthcare. This is one of the hazards of passing a bill that has 2000+ pages in three days--no one had read it and analyzed it carefully.
For a list of the Senators who supported the bill on Christmas Eve, go to Thomas.gov. For a list of the Representatives who voted for the bill on March 21st, go to Thomas.gov. Remember these names in the coming months. The Republicans are going to run on a campaign of 'repeal and replace.' In order for them to be successful, everyone needs to get involved. If you have any ambitions for yourself or for your children to be successful, now is the time to act. What Max Baucus calls "maldistribution of income", many of us call the rewards of hard work. The problem with income redistribution is that it takes away incentive and we all lose. Today's Wall Street Journal reported that personal income dropped in 42 states in 2009. If we do not act now, that is our future for a long time.
Look at the voting lists to see how your Congressman voted. Then donate, work for, or otherwise support the candidate running against him in 2010.
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