Today, the big news in the media was the “non-partisan” Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO’s) preliminary report. This report suggested that the Democrats’ socialized medicine proposal would reduce the national deficit. For the moment, let’s forget that the CBO did not grade the actual bill because the actual bill had not been released. Also, let’s forget that this optimistic estimation of the bill’s costs was almost certainly wrong. For the moment, let’s simply consider the failed logic behind such a dumb selling point.
ANY proposal involving cuts to spending (i.e., to Medicare), combined with tax increases, would reduce the deficit. For crying out loud, what a non-story! Even if the socialized healthcare takeover did reduce the deficit (which it won’t), we could reduce the deficit even more by cutting those same costs, jacking up those same taxes, and NOT crippling the medical industry.
Think about the problematic logic this way: If Uncle Sam suddenly seized 100% of every citizen’s assets, would that increase or decrease the budget deficit? Despite the improved budget, would the country be better off?
To put things simply, even if the government were made financially better off by this bill (which it won’t be), the people will be worse off. The people will be forced to buy insurance they didn’t choose while subsidizing all the leeches in society who themselves are also forced to “buy” insurance they didn’t choose. And aside from the usual government waste, the taxpayers will be forced to fund the slaughter of unborn babies. (And if I took the least bit of effort, I could probably list several other troubling issues with this legislation, but suffice it to say all the different, conflicting hidden bills and amendments have confused the heck out of me.) So whether Uncle Sam is better off or not under this socialist scheme, American society will verge on collapse. Think about that, non-partisan CBO!
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