MY TAKE ON “OBAMACARE”
The tax that wasn’t a tax from the guy who promised no additional taxes for the middle class.

First of all I would love to see universal healthcare, I think any decent person would love to see universal healthcare, but as a practical matter somebody has to pay for it when the person receiving it is unable to pay for it. In our current economic and globe covering situation this will be impossible and instead of helping the poor will create more poverty.

I’ve spent my entire adult life working, raising my family, struggling to make ends meet with one foot in the middle class and the other in the poor class, straddling the line most of the time while as a single parent. I carried medical insurance when I was able but there were also times when I had to choose between providing my kids with a home, food, and clothes or purchasing the insurance. So under Obamacare, people like me will no longer have a choice, the family will go unhoused, unfed, unclothed, or all of the above but they’ll have medical insurance which will be helpful when the kids become ill from exposure and hunger. Then they can become wards of the state because their parents were so neglectful.

But wait, aren’t there assistance programs for people without enough income, won’t there be tax credits to enable them to pay? Why sure, and those people who weren’t on public assistance programs before they were forced to buy insurance or pay the tax will become eligible and get the help they need - everybody wins. Right? Except those programs are already overburdened and - drum roll please - funded by taxpayer money, so will require even more taxes to help the additional poor which will create even more poverty. Do we see where this is going? Looks like a downward spiral to me. We’ll be on the way to being a people totally dependent on the government for every need (which, by the way puts us even farther under the government’s thumb), a government which is already unable to adequately fund those public assistance programs, and the system will collapse. This health care plan will not ease the burden of caring for the poor and uninsured, it will create more poor and further drain the treasury.

So how do we even begin to fund a universal healthcare system for the people of the United States, something which I really do strongly believe in? We stop being the rich uncle and policeman for the rest of the world. We close our military bases in foreign countries (which cause a great deal of foreign resentment toward us anyway) and cease foreign aid for all but the most serious cases of disasters in other lands. We have to get our own home healthy and in order before we cause the collapse of our nation by maintaining this informal empire; bring our armed forces home and maintain their strength on our own soil to rid ourselves of the expense of maintaining and supplying those forces in distant lands, give to the needy in other lands through private donations not forced taxation, lead the world by example not by enforcement. In short we need to get back to the founding principles of our nation. Whether it be because of religious values or sectarian humanitarian values I believe universal health care is a noble goal, and I also believe that the intentions of most of the backers of Obamacare have been good intentions, but to quote Jesus, “Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.” The only possible way to fund this is to cut spending elsewhere not add further tax burdens on an already economically beleaguered American population.