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November 8, 2007
Socialized Medicine Suffers a Setback in Oregon
How's this for fair and balanced:
Oregon's working poor will have to wait a while longer to get health-care coverage for their children.
Voters easily defeated Measure 50, a plan to raise tobacco taxes to provide universal health care for children after a record-shattering negative ad campaign financed by cigarette companies. […]
Dubbed the Healthy Kids Program, Measure 50 was a top priority of Gov. Ted Kulongoski and fellow Democrats in the Oregon Legislature. Democrats placed the constitutional amendment on the ballot when they couldn't get enough Republican votes to pass it outright or submit it to voters as a simple statute.
"The tobacco industry won this battle," Kulongoski told a somber crowd of Measure 50 supporters in Portland. "But they will not win the war."
Children must now go without healthcare, all because of Big Tobacco and its lackeys in the Republican Party!
Or you could look at it this way: Oregon voters wisely rejected a dangerous lurch toward socialized medicine.
In the long run, this has nothing to do with cigarettes, which will be either illegal or taxed out of existence in the near future, leaving greedy bureauweenies to find new victims to loot so as to feed the ever-expanding socialist programs that are suffocating the free market.
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A child deprived of "free" healthcare? Or a liberal journalist reporting a setback for Stalinized medicine? |
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin, on a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at November 8, 2007 1:45 PM
Comments
I've got an idea. Why don't we tax politicians? They want to tax everything, let's turn the tables. I think they are the only profession that isn't licensed. Shouldn't they be licensed? They would have to go through training about the US constitution and their State constitutions and things like that. And they would have to pay a special politician tax from income earned by some other means than their elected position, sort of like a Business and Occupation tax.
Posted by: Kevin at November 8, 2007 2:36 PM
I don't know, Kevin.
Submitted for your consideration:
We start teaching personal responsibility in elementary schools and personal financial management and free market economics in high schools.
Posted by: mockinbird at November 8, 2007 2:45 PM
I think mockingbird is absolutely correct in saying the personal and fiscal responsibility is the thing that politicians need to learn...the way that %99.99 of them (Democrats and Republicans, and any other parties or individuals in government) spend taxpayer money, I would really hate to see the mess their personal finances are in (remember the house baking scandal?).
Posted by: Ludwig Van Beethoven at November 9, 2007 7:52 AM
oops, I meant to say "remember the house banking scandal"
Posted by: Ludwig Van Beethoven at November 9, 2007 7:54 AM
