What is more likely to affect a larger number of Piggingtonians – estate tax reform or tort reform. I'd posit that Bush's biggest blunder is abandoning the cause of tort reform. If ANYTHING would help turn this country away from it's entrenched nanny-state ways – keeping the lawyer's filthy mitts off our cash would be a great place to start. How many of us pay too much for medical care, car insurance and other necessities? How many will be in the position of needing to be concerned with estate tax? I think the second number is dramatically smaller – but it does seem to have the effect of making a lot of people feel a lot more important when they bitch about it.
The way I see it. A lot of people are paying way to much in terms of cost because they choose to do it. They choose to drive big SUVs. They choose spend $100/month on cable, another, $100/month on a cell phone, choose drive expensive cars, and hence choose to pay a lot of car insurance. How is this everyone elses problems???????
There's no doubt Health care is wacked. The first thing would be to stop giving it away imho. But I believe some things like health care need some part of socialization. But the only problem is, no one has figured out how to pay for it. No one wants to pay for higher taxes, for those who can afford to pay taxes (I don’t mind personally if taxes rise slightly as long as everyone bears some amount if it). And as far as cutting benefits, I see the health care issue many for hourly workers. Sorry ,but my advise is get out of that job. Go get yourself a decent education, with a decent career or self/business so you aren't so dependent on crappy hourly pay/with crappy healh care. If you truely have done all that, and then still need financial assistance, apply for welfare at that point..I would be happy that my tax dollars would subsidize those people who have really tried but couldn't make it..
The only irony to this immigrant bill which is pretty funny is that all those H1-B holders who work at tech companies are probably going to have to wait longer to get their green card than illegal immigrants…That’s pretty pathetic.
