The statement "Going after their wages" is?

[Bread and Circus]

[Kutjara]

1. Other: Have you stopped beating your wife? n/t

[Bread and Circus]

3. :P

[Colobo]

2. Republicans will jump all over it.

[mathewsleep]

4. i think it's only minor

for the primary.
in the general however, it's huge. she'll get nailed for that.

[baldguy]

5. Our health care system is broken.

Telling the truth about a hard reality may be painful for a few, but we'll all be better off once it get fixed.

[City Lights]

6. For someone touting their 35 years of experience...a HUGE gaffe. eom

[End Of The Road]

8. And right before Super Tuesday, too. Wow. n/t

[GoldieAZ49]

11. 35 yrs of getting it wrong.......again, man is she out of touch with America

[Schema Thing]

7. Other: a great line for a Springsteen/Seeger sessions band song

[backscatter712]

9. Eventually, the rubber has to meet the road.

Now granted, there are better, more diplomatic, smoother ways to say it, but if we want universal health care, we have to pay for it somehow.

Obama and Clinton both, to a greater or lesser extent, and to greater and lesser subsets of the population (Obama would enforce mandatory insurance for children with his plan, Clinton would do it for everyone) would make health insurance mandatory, and make paying for it mandatory.

That involves making laws, and making consequences for not obeying the laws.

Personally, I think it would be more painless for most people if we say increased the FICA tax, took payment for the health care system from that, so your average Joe Employee doesn't have to think about it.

But eventually if someone doesn't pay into the system, that hurts everyone, thus the consequences.

Yeah. It could have been said without using words that state you'll be "going after people's wages."

[lurky]

13. FICA, mandates,

wage garnishments, whatever. It's more regressive taxation of the middle class.

[backscatter712]

14. Yeah. T'would be nice if Bush's tax cuts for the rich were repealed.

Maybe turned up the capital gains tax a notch to pay for this.

[CoffeeCat]

10. I think it's odd that no one asked Hillary about this before...

She has a mandate for low income earners. That means senior citizens on fixed incomes.
That means people on disability who must live off of $700 per month. That means single
mothers living in poverty.

How in the hell can you "mandate" that they buy something and call that "universal
coverage"? You can mandate that low-income earners purchase something. That
doesn't mean they will.

So, she finally says it...that she'll garnish wages.

That's ludicrous. You're going to take food out of the mouths of children, just so you can
say, "My plan covers everyone!" Her quest to have the "My plan covers everyone!" soundbyte
has bit her in the ass.

Not a wise plan. Not a wise political move.

[BootinUp]

12. I thought Obama was about hard truths and shit.

Or was that line abandoned on the trash heap of political slogans.