Stop Universal Health Care Now! - Learn from Wisconsin

This exercise is especially instructive, because it reveals where the “single-payer,” universal coverage folks end up. Democrats who run the Wisconsin Senate have dropped the Washington pretense of incremental health-care reform and moved directly to passing a plan to insure every resident under the age of 65 in the state. And, wow, is “free” health care expensive. The plan would cost an estimated $15.2 billion, or $3 billion more than the state currently collects in all income, sales and corporate income taxes. It represents an average of $510 a month in higher taxes for every Wisconsin worker.

Employees and businesses would pay for the plan by sharing the cost of a new 14.5% employment tax on wages. Wisconsin businesses would have to compete with out-of-state businesses and foreign rivals while shouldering a 29.8% combined federal-state payroll tax, nearly double the 15.3% payroll tax paid by non-Wisconsin firms for Social Security and Medicare combined.

From a Wall Street Journal piece titled Cheese Headcases - Wisconsin reveals the cost of “universal” health care.

Posted by on 07/24 at 05:14 AM

  1. Unfortunately, I think that most of today’s voting block is far too stupid to know what’s good for them.

    They’ve openly advocated governmental intervention in bunches of other areas, calling for laws and regulations of the most absurd things, and for no real reason.

    Billy Beck wrote a piece yesterday, “What the Damned People Want,” and I think it hits the nail squarely on the head.  People in this country, by and large, do not either understand what freedom is, or they don’t care.  That sentiment, apathy, if you are looking for it, is very pervasive in most indiviuals, and spells certain doom for freedom.

    Nice head’s up on the Wisconsin situation. I didn’t even know about it.

    Posted by theirritablearchitect  on  07/24  at  04:54 PM

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