bad news for doctors, hay days are gone. I hear salary caps for them are part of the package.
It's about time! I read an article on NYTimes where doctors are in fact giving up their private practice and becoming full time employees of the hospital. At least this way they can focus on patient care (what they were originally trained to do) instead of focusing on maximizing their paychecks.
Buddy, I am a corporate lawyer for a Big Firm so I am paying my share of taxes and have no qualms about it. Just because you weren't given opportunities and had to work hard (however relative that term may be), doesn't mean it applies to every American out there. Just as there are free loaders of the welfare system, there are corrupt executives who earn millions at the expense of innocent taxpayers so please spare me how the poor just sit there and feed off of you. By the way if you leave, it won't make much of a difference since YOU are only one of 300 million people living in the US so please don't give yourself undue credit.
Also, the poorest of the poor have always had the free health care and food stamps. It's the lower middle class that always gets screwed by the rich and powerful. They don't even qualify for government subsidies yet have to pay taxes towards greedy banks and institutions who get into a mess coz of their own wrongdoing.
You can NOT look at YOUR personal experience and draw this overly broad assumption that poor, homeless or even lower middle class = lazy and the rich, successful = hardworking...you must be incredibly naive to make such an assumption.
I don't know what your religion is but my religion definitely tells me to redistribute wealth as it's the essence of a successful society. If you don't do that, the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer thus further pushing society into a vicious circle of inequity, discrimination and racism.
If you're a lawyer that explains your stand - next to the government, lawyers must be the next the biggest bunch of free loaders billing $250 for making xerox copies. At least being a corporate lawyer, you're not an ambulance chaser.
Given that, you should also know how much the ambulance chasing liability lawyers industry is costing health care in terms of mal-practice insurance, frivolous law suits and such.
No wonder you're taking the stand you're taking. WTH will a coprorate lawyer know about hard work and doing an honest day's work!
Re: health care reform
A few corporations would get richer, others poorer. Changes in payrolls, taxes and interest rates would ensure average american is not affected much in the long run.
Re: health care reform
^ well this average American has been affected right now; tax rates are horrible right now with 50%+ plus going in taxes! (federal income tax, state income tax, medicare, social security tax, property tax, sales tax. On top of that they are removing any 'deductions' in calculating taxable income (it was already partially done with Alt.Minimum tax and now it gets worse!)
many of us are actually looking for ways to work less, make less 'gross' and keep more in 'net after tax'.
Guess what? when i do that, I'll have need for fewer employees.