How are we going to avoid taxes for everyone???!!!

Explain to me what you think is going to happen now? We have a president hell bent on tackling the most expensive initiatives imaginable!! One being healthcare reform and the other being global warming. And he’s doing in the midst of an extremely poor economy. He’s selling it by using an idiotic view of how our economy will perform in the near future. Being left alone perhaps the economy could recover in his time frame. But the economy is not being left alone! We’re making promises of all sorts that will only cost us money, not bring in more. As can be seen in this article, Tax Revenue is decreasing yet we’re spending more money. Actually phrasing it that way is an understatement, “more money”. His budget is larger than all previous budgets combined! Not the previous 2 or 3 budgets, but all previous budgets since the history of budgets in the US! Now when I say this, I don’t mean the 2009 budget, I’m really combining all promises, ear marks, etc that have been discussed. Or maybe I’m not? I don’t know. Maybe the 2009 budget all by itself is larger than all previous budgets combined?

There are many things in life that do not have the perfect answers. The best way to run a country is one of them. There is no perfect way. Healthcare has no perfect way. There’s just ways that are good enough to get the job done. What is happening now (if it gets passed) is no longer meeting the objective of getting the job done. A single payer system is not good for us. The healthcare industry is a strong industry that provides millions of jobs and billions in tax revenues and paychecks. The economy is struggling and this stuff is being pushed. Now tax revenues are decreasing, financial obligations are increasing. If you think your taxes are not going to increase then please think again. Your income tax will increase if nothing changes in the near future and new taxes that you’ve never paid before are going to be invented. The money that goes into your account will be less. Not only will that be less but even the option of having a job in the first place will be less!!! You put a strain on businesses, small or large and there’s no one out there that can afford their product to begin with, then the business will collapse and the jobs will be gone. The taxes that company paid out along with its employees will be gone, yet we still have a government that wants to spend more and more money! They increase taxes or expect the rich and successful to pay for it and the whole thing repeats, doors close, jobs go away, tax revenue goes away.

I read an article the other day that was talking about healthcare reform and how the President is rushing through it so irresponsibly. There’s no real study of what they’re doing, what possible outcomes could arise, what the damage will be, what positives will come out if, nothing. For example, we put more of a strain on the economy by taxing businesses, more businesses fail, less tax revenue comes in. This is a simple outcome for increasing taxes. What sort of analysis has the government performed on these legislations they’re putting through? Going back to this article I read, healthcare reform will be more expensive than all fortune 500 companies healthcare expenses combined, yet you can’t find a fortune 500 company that has spent this little of time trying to find the best healthcare plan for their company. What makes the President think he can throw all this together in such a little amount of time, perform no analysis, and expect it to work?????????? How can people be fooled by this? How can they say, at least it’s something! This can not be classified as “something”. This is the biggest pile of crap known to man! This is not something!! It’s wishful thinking, its promises being met by politicians for friends. Trillions of dollars are going out that will end up doing no good in the end. They do not necessarily put a trillion dollars into a trash can. It’s going into someone’s pocket, it’s just not going into the right pockets! So….promises, obligations, whatever you want to call them are being met at an unprecedented level by members of Congress. They throw all this together and there you go, we have a new bill thousands of pages long that no one wants to read yet vote on. And they want their constituents to be happy with them and vote them again. Which hopefully will not happen! At least the approval ratings are showing a change!!! Let’s keep our fingers crossed!

So….here’s my little rant for now. It makes me feel somewhat better.