No comment on the Obamamercial last night?

[Islandman]

True, which is a very inefficient way to have to treat the uninsured. Better to have a system of some sort which can be tracked.

[Hortical]

Actually on the issue of taxes, the taxes would be much higher than that, and social security & medicare tax is usually off people's radar. The rate for employees and employers is 7.6%, and for self-employed persons it is 15.3%.

Also social security & medicare tax is not imposed on wages over $102,000, which benefits the wealthy. If someone makes $200,000 in a year, they only have this tax withheld on the first $102,000 of their wages.

[Islandman]

Well, you are partially right. There is a limit on the SS wages but there is no limit on the medicare wages.

What bothers me about the tone of your posts and others who love tax increases for the so-called rich is that it is always a "the rich need to pay more" argument, and never what what works best for the economy and govt revenues but I will address that in a fresh post.