Le Jacquelope
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Solution to the health care crisis has been found:
Tax the sick.
If we use taxes to discourage behavior we don't like, then when you get sick you pay a tax. Don't want to pay it? Don't get sick. I propose one hundred dollars a day each day you're too sick to go to work or school. The money goes into the general fund.
Now you have an incentive to stay healthy, and it won't cost you a penny and won't involve any government interference.
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I know what you're thinking. "But, people can't help it if they get sick!" Bullshit - all we've been hearing is that people choose to eat crappy food, get fat, and burden the system. Personal choice would take care of a large amount of illness in this country.
From another perspective, people can't help inheriting money either, but we tax the crap out of that. And when you run a successful business you generally can't help getting wealthy from it, and we tax the shit out of that.
So don't give me your sob stories about how it's wrong to tax the sick. If you can prove your illness is genetic or otherwise totally beyond your control, I might consider at least a partial tax-exempt status. But then I'd be accused of subsidizing certain diseases, so to hell with it; tax 'em all.
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