Wednesday, February 04 2009
by Jim L. Cunningham,
DC Progressive Examiner
Let me start out by saying I'm super-duper happy that millions of children will now have health insurance that wouldn't have otherwise. The intention for the new SCHIP bill couldn't have been better or the recipients more deserving. Bravo!
Now that THAT'S out of the way...
Let me just state that I don't like at all the way this thing is being paid for.
For one thing, all those Bush tax cuts for the rich are still on the books. You remember those don’t you? After Bush campaigned in 2000 on "the dignity of the White House" and was oh-ever-so-humble on the campaign trail, wore his religion on his sleeve and talked about social issues to please the religious right, reached out to the NRA and all those "regular people", the fact is that when he actually got into office the first thing he did was to go after the money. Bush's first priority wasn't all those "have a beer with me" regular-people issues. His first and biggest priority were those giant tax cuts that went, largely, to the wealthy – to pay off all those millionare/billionare campaign donors that got him there – THOSE tax cuts. Do you remember now?
Anyway, they're still on the books. All those m(b)illionares are still benefiting from those very same tax cuts. Obama hasn't done anything about them. Yet.
Yet, we received an entirely NEW tax to pay for SCHIP.
One tax, two tax. Sin tax, poor tax. continues...
