The Affordable Care Act

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by icenine

A few years ago we had a student X-ray tech (Active Duty sailor with complete health coverage of course) complain about Obamacare. I told her hey these people deserve it....you have it don't you? Well she said oh I am in the military I sacrificed for it etc,

No clue that uninsured Americans were paying her health care. The stock answer I have heard to that point is "oh the poor do not pay tax." Which is bullshit. If you are single or married and do not own a home you easily end up paying federal taxes.

When it comes to the individual cost of survival in this country it's the poorest with the highest costs. Just look at food, clothing, housing, gas...all the staples. Where are those prices the highest? Where the lowest income families live. Which group provides the most warm bodies for this country's wars of economic opportunism and political legacy building? The poorest of Americans.

It costs the poor more to live than anybody.

This room cost $2,000 a month
You can believe it, man, it's true
Somewhere there's a landlord's laughing till he wets his pants...
- Lou Reed "Dirty Blvd."