The multibillion-dollar projection for the Senate healthcare proposal is a government lie that ignores the fact that it would heap additional costs onto states, says best-selling author Martin Gross.
“The $829 (billion) would be all right, but of course that’s a lie,” Gross told Newsmax.TV’s Kathleen Walter. "The government tends to lie almost all the time in regard to money.”
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Gross made the comments as he discussed the Congressional Budget Office report projecting that the Senate Finance Committee’s healthcare bill would spend $829 billion on healthcare reform while reducing the budget $81 billion over 10 years.
“They intend to put 15-to-20 million more people on Medicaid," said Gross, has testified six times before congressional committees on the question of waste and spending. "Who picks up the tab? The states. What do states do? They increase property taxes locally. So, this saying they’re not going to raise taxes is a total lie, because the unfunded mandates of Medicaid which the states pay most of is off the books.”
Gross, the best-selling author of "The Government Racket," continues his indictment of government waste in his new book, “National Suicide: How Washington Is Destroying the American Dream.”
Gross alleges the government of the United States is a “juggernaut of mismanagement, malfeasance, and incompetence.”
“This is all an attempt to bankrupt the middle class America in the hope of using (the economic) crisis for a socialist revolution, and it seems to be working,” Gross said.
The United States spends $700 billion a year on welfare, Gross said. Costing $8,000 in tax dollars a family, it is a fortune they can’t afford, Gross said.
“The poor is becoming middle class, and the middle class is becoming poor. It’s a scheme of the federal government (which has) absolutely no interest in the middle class except that they are the golden goose of money.”
“The middle class (is shouldering) the burden,” Gross said. “And I tell you this, middle class people can’t afford to live in America anymore.”
Gross also criticized President Barack Obama’s stimulus package which he also called deceptive.
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Abosultely correct!
ReplyDelete"This is all an attempt to bankrupt the middle class America in the hope of using (the economic) crisis for a socialist revolution..."
That's what we on the right have been saying. Obama has just stomped on the accelerator toward socialism.
Soooooooo, how's that Obama thing working out for you?
Exactly.
ReplyDeleteCap Sunstein wrote in 2004 that an economioc crisis could and should be used to move the U.S. toward socialism and communism.
Health care will tax everything bought or sold.
Deficit neutral?
What happens when the middle class runs out of money?Who will be left to sustain the welfare class?They might actually have to get jobs!
ReplyDeleteSO RIGHT!
ReplyDeleteSO SAD!
Just so you know, there is no middle class anymore. Open up your eyes! An average working family can no longer support themselves and need 2,3,or more incomes just to provide the basics. All while the richest of the rich continue to get more wealthy. There needs to be significant increases on the tax rate of the wealthiest 1%... I know "they create jobs", but do you really think these ex-ceo's with golden parachutes are creating anything except more wealth for themselves! Our country will fail without a strong middle class and we are losing the battle... Remember the 50's when the tax rate on the rich was close to 90% -- and we had a strong middle class...hmm. Oh and trust me, Rush Limbaugh makes nearly 100 million a year and he doesn't want to pay anymore taxes so he will rail against any tiny increase.
ReplyDeleteIf you took all of the money the top 1% has, it wouldn't pay for the governments proposals. That is why, on health care they will start taxing immediatly and not provide benefits until 2014. They will put the money in the general fund and then tell us how they are reducing the deficit. The GOP being out of power can now tell the truth while the Dems are lying thru their teeth. It's their turn to screw the public.
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