Call It Health Care TAX

[Mark D.]

A popular theme the right wing (working the 'Private Health Insurance' ponzi-scheme) uses is risk of higher taxes. The (true) conservative estimates are that it would save 1/3 of a trillion a year, to have Single-Payer in place. While not what is best, the 'Private Option' could possibly lead to Single-Payer one day, there is that real hope. As Dennis Kucinich pointed out...we pay (2.5 trillion, now) enough to fully fund Single Payer...with zero new taxes...and a surplus.

We need 'bumper sticker' sized messages...to beat back those right wingers that prey on the simple with that strategy. How about this? The average family pays...what? 12-14 thousand a year...for combined medical-related costs if covered. That's right. If they have health insurance even they'll pay that much. You want a stimulus? End that 'tax' on them. If they don't have coverage, the hospital takes their house. Right wingers decry tax evasion home seizures.

Use their 'medicine' against them. We're sick and tired of being taxed 14 thousand a year for really lousy coverage. The next time one of them rallies about being 'taxed' to help their fellow man, ESPECIALLY if they are Libertarians. Use this on them. Not just health care, any time they complain, and push for corporate-favorable policies as always. Call them what they are: CORPORATE LIBERALS. The really far right in those groups will really love the next one, as well.

Sick and tired of the corporate Big Brother. Yes. Those scared of a NWO. Scared of the government doing anything at all (who are fine with giving a government 1/2 trillion a year for weapons of mass destruction they frequently use). Sample's of responses to follow. Go to the Freepers cave and let them have it there. Bring it up in discussions, or in responses to blogs. Let them have it. It's all factual, and as usual, they can't win on the facts anyway. Just try it.

1) You corporate liberal. Liberal, liberal, liberal. Scared WalMart will not sell you Twinkies anymore? You little coward!
2) You want a 'nanny state', don't you? You want them to take care of you, just let 'em tax us, with the corruption?
3) I'm sick of being taxed tens of thousands for my health care by private companies. You like paying that tax now?
4) Thomas Jefferson founded this government for us...not corporations. You unpatriotic traitor to the corporations.

They will try to say: "You wanna see tax, wait til government gets its hands on it". Then advise them that in every nation on Earth besides us, with single-payer, each person pays less total cost for their coverage and health care. Then give it right back to them again: So you wanna pay those higher taxes? Well, I'm sick of the government waste of our taxes on the most expensive health care on earth. Single payer will cost me less. Less "health care" tax!!!

Keep giving your money to the health insurance nanny. You're 'all set' now because right now, you have affordable health insurance. You won't care about it until it gets too expensive for YOU and then YOU will have a problem, so at that point, only THEN will it be a problem. Your priorities end at your property line. Neighbor's house flooded - no problem - yours is dry. Oh no! Water starting to rise on your property? NOW, that is a problem, when it wasn't before.