EDITORIAL: Robbing Peter to pay Paul's health care

Increased taxes of these proportions for the ordinary fellow is a major tax on consumption. This is the wrong thing at the wrong time.

Jim

Government only operates with consent from the public majority. When that consent is flaunted, ignored, or abused, the public, as they have done throughout history, will exercise their option of control.

Eric

Obamacare is a socialist law designed to take money from some Americans and use it to benefit others. The health care bill signed into law by President Obama is full of hidden time bombs. One costly provision buried in the lengthy reconciliation bill at the last minute has taxpayers covering long-term at-home care for the elderly. Through the so-called Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act (CLASS Act), Americans will find between $150 and $250 taken out of their paychecks each month to cover this program nobody knew about.

Source: washingtontimes.com