Healthcare Reform, Barry Goldwater, Questions???
There are many facets of the various healthcare 'reform' proposals that are not entirely clear:
1. If the current proposal from the Congress and the Executive Branch is supposed to make healthcare affordable why does it appear to 'CREATE' over 50 (fifty) new agencies, working groups, committees, etc...? There is NO SUCH THING as a government 'group' (i.e. agency, committee, working group, etc...) that doesn't cost a LOT OF MONEY (i.e. taxpayer dollars) to implement and maintain.
2. Will all (at least most) of these new agencies 'pay for themselves' or are their cost now and into the future to be borne by the American Taxpayer?
3. Healthcare reform is NOT about CHOICE when it MANDATES 100 percent coverage of all Americans. That is the definition of TAXATION. If we all HAVE to have it and we ALL have to PAY FOR IT then it is a tax - NOT A CHOICE.
4. If it is a 'reform' or mandatory health 'insurance' initiative or tax on the whole population of the United States then it is a new ONE TRILLION DOLLAR government SPENDING program (a new colosal TAX!). All 'reforms' involving government involve taxes. If the consumer or citizen doesn't pay for it directly at the register then they pay for it indirectly through the higher price of the goods and/or services they purchase. They also pay for it with relatively lower wages to offset the cost of the program to 'private' business who now HAVE TO PAY FOR IT (a NEW TAX!) to comply with the new law. Another TRILLION DOLLAR government spending program, when the government ALREADY CAN'T ACCOUNT for tens to hundreds of billions of dollars of social spending to date.
In 1964 former Arizona Senator and Republican Presidental Candidate Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) stated:
"How did it happen? How did our national government grow from a servant with sharply limited powers into a master with vitually unlimited power? In part, we were swindled. There are occasions when we have elevated men and political parties to power that promised to restore limited government and then proceeded, after their election, to expand the activities of government. But let us be honest with ourselves. Broken promises are not the major causes of our trouble. Kept promises are. All too often we have put men in office who have suggested spending a little more on this, a little more on that, who have proposed a new welfare program, who have thorught of another variety of 'security.' We have taken the bait, preferring to put off to another day the recapture of freedom and the restoration of our consititutional system. We have gone the way of many a democratic society that has lost its freedom by persuading itself that if 'the people' rule, all is well."
1. If the current proposal from the Congress and the Executive Branch is supposed to make healthcare affordable why does it appear to 'CREATE' over 50 (fifty) new agencies, working groups, committees, etc...? There is NO SUCH THING as a government 'group' (i.e. agency, committee, working group, etc...) that doesn't cost a LOT OF MONEY (i.e. taxpayer dollars) to implement and maintain.
2. Will all (at least most) of these new agencies 'pay for themselves' or are their cost now and into the future to be borne by the American Taxpayer?
3. Healthcare reform is NOT about CHOICE when it MANDATES 100 percent coverage of all Americans. That is the definition of TAXATION. If we all HAVE to have it and we ALL have to PAY FOR IT then it is a tax - NOT A CHOICE.
4. If it is a 'reform' or mandatory health 'insurance' initiative or tax on the whole population of the United States then it is a new ONE TRILLION DOLLAR government SPENDING program (a new colosal TAX!). All 'reforms' involving government involve taxes. If the consumer or citizen doesn't pay for it directly at the register then they pay for it indirectly through the higher price of the goods and/or services they purchase. They also pay for it with relatively lower wages to offset the cost of the program to 'private' business who now HAVE TO PAY FOR IT (a NEW TAX!) to comply with the new law. Another TRILLION DOLLAR government spending program, when the government ALREADY CAN'T ACCOUNT for tens to hundreds of billions of dollars of social spending to date.
In 1964 former Arizona Senator and Republican Presidental Candidate Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) stated:
"How did it happen? How did our national government grow from a servant with sharply limited powers into a master with vitually unlimited power? In part, we were swindled. There are occasions when we have elevated men and political parties to power that promised to restore limited government and then proceeded, after their election, to expand the activities of government. But let us be honest with ourselves. Broken promises are not the major causes of our trouble. Kept promises are. All too often we have put men in office who have suggested spending a little more on this, a little more on that, who have proposed a new welfare program, who have thorught of another variety of 'security.' We have taken the bait, preferring to put off to another day the recapture of freedom and the restoration of our consititutional system. We have gone the way of many a democratic society that has lost its freedom by persuading itself that if 'the people' rule, all is well."
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