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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McCain Says Resolution A 'Vote Of No Confidence'

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ. voting record):

"I don't think it's appropriate to say that you disapprove of a mission and you don't want to fund it and you don't want it to go, but yet you don't take the action necessary to prevent it.                                                                                            In other words, this is a vote of no confidence in both the mission and the troops who are going over there.       

I do believe that if you really believe that this is doomed to failure and is going to cost American lives, then you should do what's necessary to prevent it from happening rather than a vote of "disapproval," which is fundamentally a vote of no confidence in the troops and their mission."  AP

   Senator McCain finally got one right! The resolution is a vote of no confidence, but not a vote of no confidence against the American Troops. It is a vote of no confidence against George Bush and the rest of this warmongering crowd who make up the war planning party!

   This party should be over and the guest in the White House should be sent home.

    Our Congress should get off their ass and come up with something that is binding, not some letter that has no bite with it!

   I would suggest that the Democratic party vote against the Warner resolution until a provision pledging to protect money for troops in combat is removed.

   Then I would suggest that the Democratic Party remove the funding for future troop escalation.

   Then I would suggest that the Democratic Party heavily investigate ( quickly ) and impeach Bush, Cheney, and Rice.

                              IMPEACH! INDICT! IMPRISON!

 

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