I just got an email from Harry Reid asking me to vote one one of four different aspects of health insurance reform. Because Harry Reid is a Democrat – I feel his results will be biased – lets give him our perspective!
Well, health care reform bills are currently being meged behind closed doors and we’ll probably repeat the Cap & Trade method of passing a bill in the house.
The below lists the “Revenue Offset Provisions” for Fiscal Years 2010 – 2019. I have also listed my opinion of the affects of the “Offset Provisions”.
Maryland couldn’t balance its budget last year, so the state tried to close the shortfall by fleecing the wealthy. Politicians in Annapolis created a millionaire tax bracket, raising the top marginal income-tax rate to 6.25%. And because cities such as Baltimore and Bethesda also impose income taxes, the state-local tax rate can go as high as 9.45%. Governor Martin O’Malley, a dedicated class warrior, declared that these richest 0.3% of filers were “willing and able to pay their fair share.” The Baltimore Sun predicted the rich would “grin and bear it.”
Lowden considers herself a disenchanted former Reid supporter and thinks she can successfully tap into anti-Reid sentiment. In the 1980s she and her husband, casino owner Paul Lowden, donated $8,000 to Reid over several election cycles.
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently wrote to Medicare Advantage plans to forbid them from sending mailings to plan enrollees telling them that health reform bills now before Congress might disrupt their Medicare coverage.
More Half Truths:
Let me be absolutely clear: if you are a working family making less than $250,000 a year you will not see your taxes go up. Not your capital gains tax, not your payroll tax, not your income tax, no tax. Your taxes will not go up. …….. President Obama
Questioner: “Senator Reid, during your tenure as one Nevada’s senators, please describe your top three accomplishments that have positively affected Nevada and its citizens”
Big Unions Plan Health Care Reform Rallies
The real US unemployment rate is 16 percent if persons who have dropped out of the labor pool and those working less than they would like are counted, a Federal Reserve official said Wednesday.
