Monday, September 14, 2009

Unhealthy

Tiger Hawk highlights one of the more idiotic provisions of the Senate health care bill: a value-added tax on companies that develop new medical technology.

It is an obvious point, but one that constantly needs to be made: when you tax something, you get less of it. The U.S. leads the world in technological innovation, and the Democrats are preparing to bump us down a few notches. Ask yourselves, citizens – does this make sense? Furthermore, does electing economic illiterates who would propose such a law seem like a good idea? Remember how you answered those questions when 2010 rolls around.

6 comments:

  1. This VAT thing is yet another nasty little surprise nestled in the Obama "health care" scam. Who knows how many more there are?

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  2. It's a mine field, no question about it. If we look hard enough, we'd probably find subsidies for root doctors and chicken heads.

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  3. Colour me confused, Paco - 'root doctors' in the American sense...or the Australian!?!

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  4. American, KC. Voo doo, santeria...that kind of thing.

    I suppose a root doctor in Australia would be a regular urologist.

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  5. WV: sibil

    You'll need one to find out how you're health's doing... goes with the voodoo etc.

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  6. Nothing is punished like success.

    You would think even that a smart Ivy league guy like Bari al-Taqqiyah would notice that the groups in this country most dependent on government health care -- Native Americans, poor blacks, poor hispanics -- also have the highest mortality rates and the shortest life spans.

    Nah, there couldn't possibly be a connection...

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