They are not through. Obama and the Dems have plans to spend even more!!! Are there not some sensible Democratic voters out there that realize yet that Obama is very quickly destroying the country? This is the most ridiculous and obvious bit of stupidity. They want to spend more on helth care. Do these idiots not relize we are in deep economic trouble??
House Health-Care Proposal Adds $600 Billion in Taxes (Update1) - Bloomberg.com
House Health-Care Proposal Adds $600 Billion in Taxes (Update1)
By Laura Litvan
June 12 (Bloomberg) -- Health-care overhaul legislation being drafted by House Democrats will include $600 billion in tax increases and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said.
Democrats will work on the bill’s details next week as they struggle through “what kind of heartburn” it will cause to agree on how to pay for revamping the health-care system, Rangel, a New York Democrat, said today. The measure’s cost is reaching well beyond the $634 billion President Barack Obama proposed in his budget request to Congress as a 10-year down payment for the policy changes.
Asked whether the cost of a health-care overhaul would be more than $1 trillion over a decade, Rangel said, “the answer is yes.” Some Senate Republicans, including Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, say the costs will likely exceed $1.5 trillion. ...



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