…and elimination of deductions.

Let’s start with:

-eliminating the mortgage deduction (A brilliant move during a housing slump)

-eliminating deductions for charitable donations

-eliminating deductions for health care (exempting unions of course. Is that fair? Obama has to pay back the unions that supported him though)

-cap and trade (not a tax per se but will have the same effect. Do you think businesses will pass the increase on to you?)

-VAT tax (A federal sales tax on all purchases)

What else you got?
Oh yeah. Letting the top tax rates go back up for individuals earning over 0,000.

And raising the corporate tax rate.

…and elimination of deductions.

Let’s start with:

-eliminating the mortgage deduction (A brilliant move during a housing slump)

-eliminating deductions for charitable donations

-eliminating deductions for health care (exempting unions of course. Is that fair? Obama has to pay back the unions that supported him though)

-cap and trade (not a tax per se but will have the same effect. Do you think businesses will pass the increase on to you?)

-VAT tax (A federal sales tax on all purchases)

-Letting the top tax rates go back up for individuals earning over 0,000( Bush tax cuts expire)

-And raising the corporate tax rate.

What else you got?
Melissa you have your head so far in the sand it’s amazing you can come up and use a computer

And what you get back in the taxes will be LESS than what you get for having a child deduction. How does that help? The businesses wont have to provide for health insurance any longer. The government will know your health history and everything that you do. The government will sign off on your health care and what is offered.

Case in point: I was on the VA health care too. I was denied a mammogram via the VA, 2 years ago when I turned 35 (I had SPECIFICALLY ASKED FOR IT BECAUSE OF STRONG FAMILY HISTORY). I have spent the past 8 months fighting breast cancer and had a tumor that was 10 cm…almost four inches in size. It would have been easily seen if they had done what I asked them to do 2 years ago. I am still having to fight and now need radiation. All that will happen with this health care is the fact that there will be MORE people who will be in this situation…and unable to sue for any real amount of money.
Jake…It is one thing for me willingly let people know my history, but it is another one being FORCED to do so without any questions.

wouldn’t require either individuals or employers to get coverage.

It avoids expanding the federal role in overseeing the health insurance industry.

it would not set up new federally regulated purchasing pools for individuals and small businesses.

it would allow individuals to use the Internet to purchase lower-cost coverage available anywhere in the country.

The plan would offer tax deductions and tax credits to help make the purchase of health insurance more affordable for individuals.

The GOP bill would take on medical malpractice, limiting jury awards for pain and suffering and creating new health courts in which a specially trained judge would hear and decide cases involving medical negligence.

It isn’t a government take over but entitles everyone to get available insurance and pools the coverages on a website so people can compare and should drive prices down through competition

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/house_GOP_health_bill/2009/07/29/241516.html

EDIT: This is the republican version of reform.

It is NOT a public option. There would be not takeover under this option. It simply seems much better than Hussein Obama’s idea for complete take over.
Edit:

APR: What do we do with an the uninsured? Medicaid is a failure. Ever since Nixon passed that law that enabled the health care to dictate prices they flew up.

I’d like to know the total bill, what’s being spent by every level of government in the country, including the revenue lost to deductions taken by both businesses and individuals. Medicare, Medicade, Veterans, Military,any other government programs, health coverage for government employees at all levels, the tax breaks at all levels – the works. I expected to find this number fairly easily; how can we talk about the proper role of government in health care if we don’t know how much is already being paid for with tax dollars ? But I can’t find it.