One common theme in zombie movies is that they just don’t go away. No matter how many you kill there are always plenty of zombies to go around. They keep on coming.
The push for health care reform is mind boggling. We have an economy in shambles and the Democratic leadership is so fixated with health care reform that they just won’t quit. You kill zombies at the front door and now they’re trying to coming through the screen porch. According to the major polling agencies, Americans do not trust the current Congress and administration on this issue. But they persist.
The Democrat Party, despite their gains the last few years, is now in a tenuous position. Pushing massive government driven health care reform will only wreck a weak economy. Government programs are notoriously inefficient and expensive. We can’t pay for what we’re doing now. How in the world does anyone with a lick of sense think we can afford this? We have created a burdensome deficit that only radical long term change can hope to fix.
And I don’t mean by raising taxes. Liberals must be really blind on economic issues if they think taxes are the answer. You cannot fix this boondoggle on the backs of the American people. You think the economy has been bad the last couple of years? Wait until the Bush tax cuts expire and the Democrats continue to squeeze more tax revenue out of the country. Draconian taxation is an economic destroyer. Real prosperity comes when the American people are allowed to prosper and are not punished for doing so. Remember when gas prices were so high in 2008 and people were ticked off at the gas companies for the profits they were pulling in? Well guess who was making more than the gas companies? If you said the Federal government you get a gold star. The tax on every gallon of gas was greater than the profit the oil companies made.
Taxes kill companies. One of the primary reasons why small businesses fail is over taxation. Guess what happens when a company operating at a fairly fixed profit margin is hit with new taxes? The first thing most do is look to see what positions can be cut so someone loses a job. It’s plain and simple. Businesses operate to make a profit. Cut into the profit margin and they have to make cuts to continue to make a profit. Historically tax cuts result in increased tax revenue while tax increases reduce revenue. It seems counter- intuitive but it’s not.
New York and New Jersey are good examples. Onerous tax rates have caused people to relocate to places like Florida, which has no state income tax. You try to rob the rich and the rich will leave and go somewhere else. They can afford to do it. The state, in attempting to squeeze more revenue out of the wealthy, loses all the revenue from them.
You kill the zombies on the screen porch and now they’re coming in through the bedroom window. They just do not quit. Health care in this country may have some issues but is it really that bad? Regardless of your insurance status, if you have a bad problem, someone will see you. People can get help. A lot of uninsured don’t want to pay for insurance but they have cell phones and new cars. This is a created crisis. We have a health care system that has flaws but overall is still pretty good.
Meanwhile we have a real crisis that won’t go away because of stimulus packages and rosy speeches. Focusing on a created health care crisis reminds me of the scene from the movie Titanic where the ship was sinking and the White Star Line employee was upset because the passengers were destroying company property. If you don’t fix the real problem the ship will sink. But hey, we’ll all have a worthless health care plan when it goes down.
Or back to my zombie analogy — when everyone becomes a zombie what’s left to eat?
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