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Originally Posted by Golfingnut
If it costs more for everyone to have coverage, then I am all for it. You must separate medical care from luxury material, medical is a necessity not a bigger house or fancier car. The greed for more more more must be replaced with common decency for our fellow man. I know people that drive a Mercedes but will not help the less fortunate with basic survival.
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Most people intended to benefit from the current healthcare reform are people who live paycheck-to-paycheck and are barely able to make their modest mortgage payments, NOT people wanting a Mercedes or a McMansion.
And the other side of your Mercedes-driving acquaintances is that many, if not most, DO help the less fortunate
in ways other than just pushing for more government dependency and "giving" programs. You don't know what charitable giving and high tax rates every expensive car driver submits on his tax returns.
I know quite a few people who are small business owners who treated themselves to a Mercedes or BMW 20-30 years after risking their house, IRAs and everything they had to start a business and keep it solvent
and keep their employees employed and having some basic health insurance!
70% of jobs in the USA are provided by small business, and the way they help the "less fortunate" is by providing a JOB. If the small business owner drives a Mercedes or a Rolls Royce, he has
earned it. And also, the corporate executive has
earned it too, by starting at the very bottom in an entry-level position paying barely above minimum wage, and based on erratic commissions that disqualify many from even getting a mortgage for a decent, not grand, home of their own for many years.