Universal Healthcare?

[teggy]

@Spock

This is where the affluent capitalists will have a gripe at him; the increase for them, at the same time curtailing increases for the low/mid income levels. I am not sure, its a tough call but in the end a mediocre healthcare system that is there for everyone is still better than one a really good one, for those who can afford it, from a totally humanitarian point of view. Everyone deserves to live a lifetime.

You were correct. Raising taxes on the wealthy is already meeting fierce opposition in both the Congress and Senate.

WASHINGTON –** President Barack Obama’s call to raise taxes on high earners and greenhouse gas polluters met fierce opposition Tuesday from congressional Republicans and also a few Democrats.** “I would never want to adversely affect anything that is charitable or good,” Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said of Obama’s call to limit high-income taxpayers’ itemized deductions for charitable donations and mortgage interest.
Republicans said the president’s plan to charge fees to industries that spew greenhouse gases amounts to a stealthy tax increase for all Americans that will far exceed the new $400 annual tax cut for workers that he wants to extend beyond 2010.

Obama’s plan to hike taxes meets fierce opposition