Ok, Richard, I'll bite: what is the marriage penalty?
On Sunday, November 17, 2013 2:58 PM, Richard Williams <pundits...@gmail.com> wrote: The rent is too damn high! Now we're going to have to pay higher taxes in order to get heath insurance. You can't keep your plan or your doctor and you can't sign up at the exchange. And now I'm finding out there's a marriage penalty.It's just outrageous! The rent is too damn high! On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:26 PM, <authfri...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >Not only has it already been passed long since, it's survived a Supreme Court >challenge. The Republicans--a minority of the most conservative--aren't trying >to keep it from passing, they're trying to get it repealed, defunded. It's >just insane. That's why the government is shut down and why the debt limit >increase is in jeopardy, threatening default. This small group of House >members is holding the country hostage. > > >Once Obamacare is fully in effect, unless things go badly wrong somehow, a lot >of people will change their tune. Folks are bellyaching, generally speaking, >because they're either misinformed (by the Republicans) or uninformed. > > >Somebody took a poll the other day asking people if they approved of >Obamacare; then asking them if they approved of the Affordable Care Act. A >sizeable percentage approved of the latter but not the former. In fact, >Obamacare IS the Affordable Care Act. Just different ways of referring to the >same exact thing. > > >The new government Web site where people can find out about and apply for >Obamacare has been mobbed the past few days. That's the good news. The bad >news is that it wasn't prepared for such a huge onslaught and has been >malfunctioning rather seriously. You just want to tear your hair out. > > >Ann wrote: > >I gotta tell you I do not, for the life of me, understand why Americans are >belly aching about a new health care set up in the US. Nothing could be any >more expensive and out of reach for the average American than it is now. I >think if the damn thing ever passes all this fear-mongering and whining will >prove unjustified. Christ, I hear some people are even afraid the US will >become a (gasp) socialistic society as a result. I've got news for you guys, >you already are. > >
