Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Saturday, October 10, 2009

Shawn Tully, Fortune: Now that the Congressional Budget Office has concluded that the health-care bill proposed by Sen. Max Baucus will shrink the federal deficit over the next ten years, its champions are heralding the legislation as a model of fiscal responsibility. But the CBO's comforting analysis relies on a big assumption that's highly questionable -- the belief that America's employers will keep providing coverage for their workers.

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Good article. For $400 per employee, what intelligent employer wouldn't quit paying an $800-per month premium?

But why should reality stop the train. Gobama! Go libbies! You know best!

Only a democrat could claim this will lower the deficit or not raise taxes for the middle class.

"dangerous secret"

......based on the articles Chapel is posting......

....I'd say he's a strawman for Repub propoganda....

.....promoting the American Taliban's continued rape of Americans.......

It is a CNN article. Can't lean much more left than that.

Hey Skidmark. You lost us at Taliban.

Moveon.org folks, nothing to see here.

Ski is all about rape lately. Maybe you should be spending more of your time on Craigslist, and less here, you sick POS.

Economist Michael Tanner of the conservative Cato Institute points out two main reasons.

Are these the same Cato Institute assholes who lauded Chimpy for cutting taxes and then borrowing $3 trillion from China to fund his egregious Iraqi adventure?

Reinheit--you need to update your talking points. Obama has just borrowed $3 trillion from the Chinese to bail out his pals at Goldman Sachs. Nobody minds deficit spending anymore. Get with the program, dude.

Oh--and read the article next time before bloviating, if you can. Gobama!

Chimpy? How racist of you....

A woman applying for a job in a Florida lemon grove seemed to be far too qualified for the job.

The foreman frowned and said, "I have to ask you this; "Have you had any actual experience in picking lemons?"

"Well, as a matter of fact, I have!" she replied.

"I've been divorced three times, owned 2 Plymouths, and I voted for Obama."

"dangerous secret"

......based on the articles Chapel is posting......
I'd say he's a strawman for Repub propoganda....

.....promoting the American Taliban's continued rape of Americans.......

#3 | Posted by skizziks - FLAG: acquired critical thinking skills from HuffPo

I suppose case can be made that those who can do nothing at all - -
DO NEED more gvt in their lives

need Obama money?? it's in his stash

RogaineIs Right, keep selling.

Hey Skidmark. You lost us at Taliban.
Moveon.org folks, nothing to see here.
........#5 | Posted by The_Chapel

......you are a shill.......it's transparent.......

Hey Skidmark. You lost us at Taliban.
Moveon.org folks, nothing to see here.
........#5 | Posted by The_Chapel

We never had you in the first place-who the Hell would?

I can't seem to get the link to the article to work.

This article reads like an argument for universal single payer, if what it says is correct. Of course there is an ideological opposition to that so....

... I hope I haven't been right about Baucus' intentions all along.

But if I am right, isn't this somehting the greater democratic party should have been able to predict?

"I can't seem to get the link to the article to work."

Worked for me, Danni. Try it again.

"Even if employers simply accelerate what they're doing already, in many cases dropping their plans or scaling them back, it's a recipe for higher taxes and bigger deficits. The mystery is why the Baucus plan offers corporate America such a tempting, if not irresistible, invitation to get out."

""Even if employers simply accelerate what they're doing already, in many cases dropping their plans or scaling them back, it's a recipe for higher taxes and bigger deficits."

INteresting sentence when you stop to consider....we wouldn't have run deficits if they hadn't cut taxes. Taxes pay down deficits. They do more than that but the old school supply siders who have had their philosophy debunked but who still are out there preaching it don't want to tell you, high taxes on the rich can also be a stimulus for investment into industry just as they were in the 40's, 50's, 60's. Ironic huh, we built the largest industrial manufacturing economy in the world while we also had tax rates as high as 90% in the top income brackets. Even when lowered to 76% the engine kept building but when it was lowered to 15% on capital gains and 35% on income the incentive was removed and the money flowed elsewhere. You want to rebuild America, surprise...it will cost lots of money and that money will have to come from the people who have lots of money.
All the rest of the pretending by politicians is nonsense. WE will either start taxing the way we used to or we will descend as a nation to a much poorer level. We are going the way of Latin America.

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