2016 Postmortem

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)

82. Did I say the poor was not going to get insurance, no I did not, I did say wages will be subjected

Thu Nov 19, 2015, 05:31 PM

Nov 2015

To an increase in taxes, the 1% who does get wages will not pay for this. The over and over of taxing the rich, they can relax and get free health insurance.

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

89 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Hillary Clinton Attacks Bernie Sanders� Progressive Agenda [View all] pinebox Nov 2015 OP

Hillary is a progressive in the same way Bristol Palin is a virgin. Scuba Nov 2015 #1

***Thread Win *** 99Forever Nov 2015 #4

Bingo + 1000 daybranch Nov 2015 #89

Bingo!!!! Fuddnik Nov 2015 #5

Oh damn mindwalker_i Nov 2015 #6

Right on! InAbLuEsTaTe Nov 2015 #10

+1 Segami Nov 2015 #31

........ daleanime Nov 2015 #35

!!!!! Ed Suspicious Nov 2015 #40

... Bubzer Nov 2015 #46

I forget who said it Aerows Nov 2015 #63

OMG - I can't quit laughing Samantha Nov 2015 #74

Maybe Hillary just sucumbed to peer pressure by the class she curries favor with daybranch Nov 2015 #88

Sanders said he was going to tax the rich, then he proposes an increase in income taxes, WTH, this Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #2

You do understand HerbChestnut Nov 2015 #26

Don't think that will any difference.... daleanime Nov 2015 #36

You do understand this is a tax on low income people, the 1%, they will not be affected. Again the Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #67

It is ****CHEAPER***** than private health insurance. HerbChestnut Nov 2015 #72

Yes it will be cheaper, like free for the 1%, now that is a deal they like. Tax those other people, Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #73

That's just not true, and you know it. HerbChestnut Nov 2015 #75

Wasting everyones time, research the tax rate Romney pays, even Warren Buffett said he was paying Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #78

Low income people are often covered by Medicaid. Why should they get a tax increase? bravenak Nov 2015 #79

What polls are those? HerbChestnut Nov 2015 #81

The polls that say people do not want a tax increase. bravenak Nov 2015 #83

Ah, I see. HerbChestnut Nov 2015 #84

They want tax increases on the wealthy but not themselves. bravenak Nov 2015 #85

Will you quit bothering Clinton supporters , puhlease!! daybranch Nov 2015 #86

A household making $200,000 is not middle class starroute Nov 2015 #59

A 1% progressive tax is on the low income, this is not those making $200,000, it is the lowest Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #69

This is why we can't have anything nice abelenkpe Nov 2015 #61

Where, on what, the wages they do not get? These people gets capital gains, dividends, interest and Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #70

You never seem to mention that the poor and middle class will get healthcare too. arcane1 Nov 2015 #77

Did I say the poor was not going to get insurance, no I did not, I did say wages will be subjected Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #82

Because she's still a Goldwater Girl at heart? Fuddnik Nov 2015 #3

no she is a Chipotle girl snooper2 Nov 2015 #16

How is it progressive to tax the middle class? JaneyVee Nov 2015 #7

Let me explain pinebox Nov 2015 #8

Perhaps if Sanders explained HOW he's going to implement Single Payer... brooklynite Nov 2015 #11

Actually.... pinebox Nov 2015 #14

No - that tells me how he proposes to pay for it...I'm asking how he gets Congress to support it brooklynite Nov 2015 #19

The same you do pinebox Nov 2015 #21

We voted in Dems in 2006 and 2008...how did Single Payer work? brooklynite Nov 2015 #24

Obama refused to let John Conyers even bring it up. That's how it worked. think Nov 2015 #27

If Conyers HAD introduced it, what do you think would have happened? brooklynite Nov 2015 #29

A lack of discussion GUARANTEES it won't happen. The American people deserved to understand what was think Nov 2015 #30

Doesn't that speak volumes about our system pinebox Nov 2015 #42

The same way he'll become President.. by clicking his heals: Amimnoch Nov 2015 #32

As opposed to this? pinebox Nov 2015 #43

brook you might like the way he is going to pay for single payer, 1% tax increase, Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #76

Excellent explanation! Bernie gets this...soon all of us. InAbLuEsTaTe Nov 2015 #12

The difference between $12/hr and $15/hr is Bernie's tax hike. JaneyVee Nov 2015 #13

No Janie the difference is single payer pinebox Nov 2015 #15

Expand Medicaid. JaneyVee Nov 2015 #17

LOL Janie Janie Janie pinebox Nov 2015 #18

Better bargaining for drug prices. JaneyVee Nov 2015 #20

No what we need is regulation pinebox Nov 2015 #22

That is in her healthcare policy proposals already. JaneyVee Nov 2015 #23

Which part? pinebox Nov 2015 #44

If I'm not mistaken zalinda Nov 2015 #53

I Myself Understand How You've Explained This, AND ChiciB1 Nov 2015 #54

Wait a couple of years if she gets in Armstead Nov 2015 #9

Exactly LiberalLovinLug Nov 2015 #60

Good for Clinton. NCTraveler Nov 2015 #25

So you believe in increasing the tax burdon on the middle class? Amimnoch Nov 2015 #28

You missed this didn't you pinebox Nov 2015 #45

And doing away with insurance premiums and copays? Hell yes I do! arcane1 Nov 2015 #50

the short answer -- 3rdwayers are the lesser evil cousins of rightwingers stupidicus Nov 2015 #33

Or maybe just a less competent evil. Fuddnik Nov 2015 #47

That is such a dishonest tweet. bobbobbins01 Nov 2015 #34

Exactly. Jennifer Granholm is a bold-faced liar, and so is anyone who quotes her n/t arcane1 Nov 2015 #51

Right. What he said was he was not as big a socialist as Eisenhower Qutzupalotl Nov 2015 #58

Right, and even those high figures being tossed around... thesquanderer Nov 2015 #87

You have no idea how many intelligent, educated liberals I know who think that raising the top abelenkpe Nov 2015 #65

My mother though it for years. bobbobbins01 Nov 2015 #66

My biggest fear about Hillary is that, if elected, she'll revert to GOP lite. Vinca Nov 2015 #37

???? Old Codger Nov 2015 #39

Maybe I should have said "revert back to." Vinca Nov 2015 #64

Not my fear. Javaman Nov 2015 #48

Revert? nt TBF Nov 2015 #56

HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!! WillyT Nov 2015 #38

She has to ibegurpard Nov 2015 #41

Clinton is simply not acceptable. SoapBox Nov 2015 #49

Feelin' the Bern kick Faux pas Nov 2015 #52

9% lets look at what they get. bl968 Nov 2015 #55

Medicare already covers renal transplants geardaddy Nov 2015 #57

ok. n/t zappaman Nov 2015 #62

The main difference to me between both is that Hillary is a pragmatist and Bernie is an idealist. Beacool Nov 2015 #68

As I've said many times pinebox Nov 2015 #71

Well, she is a step ahead of where I thought she would be. Hepburn Nov 2015 #80