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Visitor Comments
Terra
May 11, 2007, 6:33am (report abuse)How about tax relief for everybody?
Ken
May 19, 2007, 9:07pm (report abuse)I agree. Tax corporations who run the country, and repeal the income tax for all individuals, except those raking in more than the cost of the median US home price.
kenb
May 25, 2007, 12:57pm (report abuse)Your metric of a $6.73 savings per family has no bearing on this bill. I don't have a small business, so I don't get a saving.
towman
June 27, 2007, 11:01am (report abuse)Read the bill! It appears to limit the tax relief a trust-fund baby under 24 can obtain. In other words, they pay higher taxes for not having a job...Sounds good to me, but will it pass?
doh
August 8, 2007, 5:37pm (report abuse)I found this on google
Dubya
September 17, 2007, 7:19pm (report abuse)When all is said and done, the tax on tobacco products will not sate their appetite. But, they have a "Law" once the President sings it and therefore are authorized to take the money from any and all sources to fund their 'socialized insurance', the Socialists' dream.
They start off by taxing 'only 5.0% with 95% supporting their idea, how can it go wrong? Once it is 'Law' they can shift the money from any and all incomes to finance it! You will all pay.
Great Danes
October 1, 2007, 9:39am (report abuse)Hey I smoke and I'll tell you ..If these guys think I'm going to be taxed to death and then NOT be able to Smoke...GUESS WHAT I DO......I QUIT!!
Now WHO PAYS FOR THIS??? YOU DO!
Gary
October 1, 2007, 6:19pm (report abuse)Most people fail to understand, Corporations don't pay taxes per say. The taxes that they pay are passed right to us that purchase their product or service. So if the government increases the tax to corporations, their price of product/service goes up to us, the consumer to off-set the higher tax burden on them
Ann
October 2, 2007, 8:27am (report abuse)Look, small business is good. It allows smaller business to hire people and give them some way to help them with medical.
Jobs is everyone's business.
Gary's right, they pass the cost of taxes to the comsumer.
Incomes have not rised with the rate of inflation. Larger corporations net profit has increased, but employee income under the line of executives has not. When the coporations take away some of the benefits from those employees because they say they cannot afford it, then employees are forced to get help someplace else. It's one thing to be a healthy adult and have to pay occasional medical bills when you are sick, it's quite another not to get regular medical for the kids. It's not just about socialized medicine, it's about making sure the children have medical regardless of benefits or have, or not have. We were all kids once.
Bob
October 4, 2007, 9:08pm (report abuse)Why is there rarely any mention about how much a the tax on a pack of cigaretts would be, not only cigaretts byt any form of tobacco products including rolling papers.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c110:7:./temp/~c1103m5nSR:e332435...
Mia
October 15, 2007, 9:31am (report abuse)I don't want this bill at all but here are some other problems: where are the requirements from the feds to the states to REQUIRE means and assets testing? It is ridiculous that a family can have $400,000 in property, 4 kids in private school, 3 newer cars, part-time jobs that pay $45,000 and get benefits. This is not an example of the working poor. This is an example of a family who is better off than I am BUT I am paying my own way.
The reason I am against this bill is because it is another example of creeping socialism. Our government is trying to steal our liberties slowly and we are asleep. If we don't stop them now, with this bill and with each bill like this they will get away with it. Stop going to DC with your hand out. Each time you do you lose a piece of your freedom.
D-Bo
October 16, 2007, 7:42pm (report abuse)This is the only site I have found with a direct link to the actual bill. Independent thinkers can read the bill and come to their own conclusions. Everyone should try it instead of being spoon-fed BS by the media.
After reading the bill, I've found a couple of shortfalls. A) States are required to match the contribution made by the feds. Some states are poorer, and may not be able to contribute as much. B) There isn't a contingency plan in case tobacco & para. taxes do not meet their projected income. C) The bill provides coverage from the womb to adulthood.
The biggest problem with the bill: Consequences of poor decisions made by reproducing adults are now society's responsibility.
Jonathan
October 22, 2007, 12:55pm (report abuse)I think there is a misconception about corporations and taxes. I own a small IT consulting company and trust me, corporations pay a lot of taxes that can't simply be passed on to consumersl.
If government spending was in check and foreign policy particularly in the middle east was more realistic, the government could fund this bill without implementing additional taxes of any sort.
The biggest problem is that neither the president or congress have a clue about how to effectively utilize the military using effective strategies that combat terrorism and the guerilla tactics presented by many radical islamic fundamentalist.
Stop using the military in Iraq for policing which should allow the military to significantly downsize from Iraq, refocus on al Qaeda and killing Bin Laden and his top aides, and fund H.R. 976 with a fraction of the funds that would have been wasted in Iraq!
Cigar Man
October 29, 2007, 7:08pm (report abuse)VOT NAY ON THIS BILL. The tax increase on cigars is crazy. $3 per cigar is more than double of many good hand rolled cigars cost. This price increase is going to cause many small business owners of cigar stores to go out of business. The impact of this tax will send shock waves through south american countries that struggle much more than us americans. Most of nicaragua, honduras, and dominican republic use money from the cigar industry to survive and a large number of these people are women with children. The tax increase will fail to raise money to fund this program because many cigar smokers will not buy enough cigars at this elevated price. VOTE NO ON SCHIP and keep your hands of my smokes.