http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/arkansas-gop-trapped-between-far-right-whats-right/Content?oid=2624405 Comments On: Arkansas GOP trapped between far right, what's right by Ernest Dumas en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Obama's $890 billion stimulus package that has been made permanent through an extra $300 billion annual increases to federal spending in continuing budget resolutions has failed to restore these indicators of economic recovery. (For the past 4 years Senate Democrats have refused to pass a budget and the government has been opearating through continuing budget resolutions because they don't want to be part of a compromise committee that negotiates restructuring of federal health care programs).

Why then would anyone believe that when Arkansas assumes the responsibility to pay for these new Medicaid recipients in the future the state's economy would be able to pick up the cost for them plus the Medicaid recipients it's already straining to cover?

Why add 250,000 low income citizens as Medicaid recipients when it will be impossble to pay their Medicaid costs after the nation slips into the worst depression of its history?

Liberals are incapable of understanding the severity of America's financial problems and want the government to proceed into socialized medicine even though we're currently borrowing 46% of our federal budget. If the state adds these recipients under the current Medicaid structure they will just have to be cut off in the future or Medicaid reimbursements will have to be reduced to the point that Hospitals and doctors are bankrupted.

Liberals and America's corrupted networks argue the Republicans didn't offer a health care plan prior to 2009 but Bush did in fact propose a modest plan that included Medical Savigs Accounts, catestrophic hospitalization insurance with subsides for low income citizens, permitting the sale of insurance policies across state lines and medical malpractice law suit reform which would have reintroduced market forces into health care and cost around $50 billion annually. Instead, the Democrats gave us Obamacare that costs around $200 billion annually, reduces Medicare reimbursements by $500 billion and is already driving health care premium increases!

An economy is in dire straits when its debt to GNP ratio exceeds 50%; America's ratio is currently 100% and growing. The US is presently over promised 70 to 80 trillion dollars in entitlement spending for the next several decades. It is absolutely impossible for America to borrow enough to pay for these programs. The day the borrowing stops is the day Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, welfare etc. will stop and the day people will think this country is coming apart at the seams! That day is on track and cannot be avoided primarily because of 80 years of Democratic Party utopian schemes just like the one Dumas is proposing all the while insinuating evil Republicans don't care about the poor. Well, we'll see who doesn't care about the poor or any other American in that day because the that's the day jack-boots will be marching in the streets of Washington DC just like 1920s and 1930s Fascist Europe!
Posted by Thomas Pope]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:49:08 -0600 Arkansas Times
Imagine this: Take away the cost of Health Care, Social Security, FICA / Medicare, etc and strip it from the employee and employer costs (most companies pay 75% of employee health care) What are you left with? Why all the sudden companies are saving 10-15% per employee. Employees are saving $400-$800 a month in Insurance, Social Security, and FICA payments.

All the sudden it makes sense to hire American. If an American worker only costs what their hourly / salary wage is, and you no longer need as many tax accountants or worry about the labor department as much, then that takes away a lot of business stress.

Wait! Who is going to pay for Social Security, Health Care, FICA then?

American economy is 20 trillion dollars each year, that is far more then even China. All the sudden, people AND businesses will have more money in their pockets due to immediate employee cost reduction and paycheck net take home increases.

Why not use that economy to our benefit? Have a 10% sales tax on the sale of everything, what is 10% of 20 trillion? That's right, 2 trillion dollars. Then bump up the individual and family deduction $2250 which covers the first $22,500 in product you buy each year so low income families not only make more per paycheck, they also after tax return do not end up paying additional sales tax on the first $22,500 made.

Ok so what you are telling me is Apple no longer has a reason to build the iphone in China? That the cost of shipping, Warehousing, and Security plus the cost of the Chinese labor is now more then the cost of building an Iphone here in America?

Yes that is what I'm telling you. You would have more money in your pocket, the sales tax rate increase is basically a wash against what you were paying in Payroll Taxes. Everyone enjoys the first $22,500 in sales tax refunded back to them. Businesses no longer pay 10-15% increased employee cost per employee.

Everyone wins, EXCEPT other countries who no longer are making our products or taking care of call center operations.
Posted by Daniel Edwards]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:28:57 -0600 Arkansas Times