{"id":1507,"date":"2010-01-08T05:40:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T05:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2010-01-08T05:40:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T05:40:48","slug":"but_its_not_really_a_tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"But It&#8217;s Not Really A Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/bloomberg\/20100108\/pl_bloomberg\/ahxbgwxdoqbq\">Yahoo News<\/a>&nbsp;posted a Bloomberg.com story today on how we are going to pay for the proposed healthcare legislation.&nbsp; The House may agree to the Senate idea of raising Medicare payroll taxes and taxing health benefits.&nbsp; It also looks as if the surtax on the wealthy may be tossed out.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The bottom line here is that someone has to pay for whatever healthcare plan is passed.&nbsp; There is no free lunch.&nbsp; Raising taxes on anything in a struggling economy will inhibit economic growth.&nbsp; This is not the way to end a recession.<\/p>\n<p>What we need to do is to scratch the current healthcare bill and start over.&nbsp; Bipartisanship would be nice.&nbsp; There are a few things that would actually work in dealing with the challenges we face in our healthcare system:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tort reform<\/li>\n<li>Coverage for pre-existing conditions<\/li>\n<li>Portability across state lines<\/li>\n<li>Tax breaks to help low income people pay for health insurance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are the only things that really need to be done to improve healthcare in America.&nbsp; Anything else is overkill.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to see the current healthcare reform bill defeated and you live in Massachusetts, a vote for Scott Brown on January 19th would have that effect.&nbsp; If you don&#8217;t live in Massachusetts, please feel free to donate to his campaign!&nbsp; The election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts may be the only thing that can stop this awful bill!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo News&nbsp;posted a Bloomberg.com story today on how we are going to pay for the proposed healthcare legislation.&nbsp; The House may agree to the Senate idea of raising Medicare payroll taxes and taxing health benefits.&nbsp; It also looks as if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1507\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}