Is health care doable without middle class tax hike or adding to deficit (couple

[Mercer]

questions on hc)? If this bill is passed who is going to pay for it? How does this 900 billion dollar bill get paid for?

Obama promises it won't add a dime to deficit.

Is this possible? How can he pull this off?

 

[Iriquois Pliskin]

All the american people, except the tax cheating Dem's.

He taxes us, and taxes us.

Canada and Great Britain are going broke because of their socialized health care, and so will we if it gets passed. He also promised no tax increases on the middle class.

No. He can't pull it off, without destroying our country as we know it.

 

[tybalts_rapier]

Theoretically, it is. Though how anyone could accomplish this feat without raising taxes across the board is difficult at best.

When you're looking at this question, try thinking about public schooling. Jefferson was instrumental in making sure that every American had the opportunity for an education, but what if he hadn't? What if that was what Obama was suggesting?

The wealthier classes that had always sent their children to the best of schools would be crying foul at the concept of raising taxes in order to sponsor some poor child's education.

Back to the point; he can pull this off if he can get a lot of the money he promised by raising taxes only on the top 5% of Americans, stopping government "soft money" from going to corporations who outsource labor to countries like China, India, etc., and going after companies who hide their assets in foreign accounts in order to avoid fair taxation.