Sigghhhhhhhh....
Posted By: Observer on 2007-10-03
In Reply to: Maybe the tobacco companies have - purchased the President's vote?
perhaps he didn't agree with raising the cigarette tax because he knows full well, just like the rest of us who do the numbers, that the cigarette tax is NOT going to pay for the whole 6-billion expansion of the program. Which will mean inevitably more taxes for every American. It was written to expand to include for instance, families of 4 (2 adults 2 children) making $80K a year. I disagree that a family making $80K a year cannot afford insurance for their children. This has nothing to do with the cigarette tax or big business, believe me. It has to do with Democrats being stubborn and not willing to compromise, sending a bill to him they knew he would veto. That is just ridiculous on their part. He asked them to continue the program as it was without expanding it until they could come to a compromise, but they refused, instead sending a bill they knew he would veto. Why not get some of what they wanted, why be stiff-necked and ask for it ALL. Why? Because they don't care about insuring children. They just want a headline. They knew he would veto it and that is why they wrote it that way...so they got the headline BUSH VETOES CHILD HEALTH INSURANCE. Patently obvious to me. Now I don't agree with Bush on everything and a true conservative he is NOT...but he is not the guilty one in this. He suggested giving those $80K families tax breaks for the premiums they pay for their children's insurance, whether they pay for all of it or their company paid for part of it. That sounds like a much better idea to me. At least he understands that we cannot keep doing the entitlement, tax, entitlement tax, entitlement, tax...and, with all due respect, if they can't run the government and prioritize social spending on 30-40% off the top of every American's income, then something is BADLY wrong and throwing more entitlements and taxes at it will not fix it. We cannot keep extending entitlements higher and higher up the income ladder. It has to stop somewhere.
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