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Free Healthcare? (Original Post)
SHRED
Jul 2012
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raccoon
(31,127 posts)1. Amen, when anyone calls it "free," correct them and tell them it's paid for with taxes. nt
annabanana
(52,791 posts)2. It is a MUCH better use for my taxes
than $70k breaks for dancing horses.
stufl
(96 posts)3. We will enrol in Medicare B starting 9/1 when my wife retires (involuntarily)...
and it will cost us TWICE what she was paying as an employee.
Who ever said Medicare was free?
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)4. They will argue that the poor don't pay federal income tax and therefore
it is someone else's taxes being spent for their free health care.
It is bull shit but when you over simplify like this you ask for it.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)5. I was posting as someone who does pay Federal income tax at year's end