On Jan 21, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Max Sawicky wrote:
> ...I'd say a new, big Gov structure creates demands for subsidies in
> the future which threaten greater taxes on capital. It also opens
> the door to addition
> of a public option...
But that "door" is wide open now--all(!!) that's needed is election of a congressional majority in favor of Medicare for All. The door closes (until 2016 at the earliest) with passage of a bill whose effects start only in 2013. And if the corporate politicians decide to increase subsidies (to the Insurance Companies) they will finance them the way they always do--by raising taxes on the working (aka middle) class and cutting back on social welfare benefits like Medicare and Social Security. Obama's Bipartisan Deficit Commission demonstrates that exactly such larceny is already in the works.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos