John Edwards would Raise Taxes On Wealthy to Pay for Healthcare coverage

Edwards, on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday:

"We'll have to raise taxes. The only way you can pay for a healthcare plan that cost anywhere from $90 to $120 billion is there has to be a revenue source.

Finally we need to do a much better job of collecting the taxes that are already owed,"  referring to large amounts of unpaid capital gains taxes.

"We should have brokerage houses report the capital gains that people are incurring because we're losing billions and billions of dollars in tax revenue."    Reuters for more

  What we need in this country is universal healthcare for all of the citizens of the United States and the only way to get even close to this kind of service is to raise the taxes needed to fund this type of program.

   Nobody in government likes to say it publicly and corporations do not want to hear it, but raising taxes is the only way that we are going to be able to fund not only this effort, but others which have been hacked to death by the Bush Crime Family.

   The corporations who are making money hand over fist should have to bear the brunt of the increase since most companies now provide insurance that is sub-par or that has premiums that are beyond outrages for any good coverage. Then you can throw in the fact that many companies now hire part-time workers to avoid providing insurance to anyone. Let them pay higher taxes!

   If it weren't for the workers that you fuck over, you would not be in business.

 

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