Obama and McCain are both wrong on taxes and healthcare
Sep11
I have to admit, I am somewhat of a liberal when it comes to health care. I believe that health care is a basic right regardless of your occupation and insurance plan. So, on this issue, I side with the Democrats and Mr. Obama. However, I am ultra conservative when it comes to taxes. I think it is unfair to ask one part of the population to pay a higher percentage of their salary (read: percentage not dollar amount). So, honestly, I side with McCain and the Republicans when it comes to taxes.
But, when you combine the two issues, taxes and healthcare, into a single issue, I think both Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain are wrong. I do not see the two as mutually exclusive. I do not think that in order to increase health care you have to raise taxes. Now, I know what you are thinking—what?
But, I think it is true. Constituents in the US need to start treating the president of the US like the CEO of the world’s biggest company. If Microsoft started coming out with products that had less features, cost more, and ran the company into massive debt, do you think the board would allow Microsoft’s CEO to remain? I doubt it. But, that is exactly what is happening with our government. And, the worst part is that the new potential CEOs, McCain and Obama, are not addressing the core problems. They talk about change and sling mud, but no one is addressing the core issue—that the government is bloated, inefficient, and ineffective.
If we remove these ineffeciences I think it would be more than possible to add new features (e.g. healthcare) well below the current cost structure. The problem is that neither candidate is willing to admit that real change needs to be done. Sadly, the only candidate who realized this, Ron Paul, was deemed too out of touch to run on the GOP ticket.
September 12th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Politics are an interesting issue. But I have to say that I can never agree with the Grand Old Party tax view. The position of giving the largest tax breaks to the wealthiest in the ‘hopes’ that their landfall profits would cascade down to the employees of the company or that all that profit would be invested into market growth is a dream.
This has never happened. The richest 1% hardly every give back. I don’t see wages of the largest and wealthiest companies rising through the roof. What I see is these guys exploiting their riches in vulgar displays. The definition of a fiscial conservative is “me keep all the money.”
Now where I will 100% agree with you is that we should start running our government like a business. But in the case of the government, it is not only the CEO that needs to be held to a wall, but every employee in the company. The real problem is that no one is held accountable for anything because you can’t get fired. Simple. And when a politician really screws the pooch, it is a matter of information concealment from their constituents as not to jeopardize the next election. Man, I wish I had job security like that.
Ron Paul? Really? While I am for reform, that is just to extreme for my taste.
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