Michigan to Tax Doctors to Pay Doctors
-By Warner Todd Huston
Who said that government ever made any logical sense? The State of Michigan has lighted upon a brilliant plan. It has been suggested that the state tax doctors so that it can pay doctors more via its Medicaid expenditures. Yes, the Wolverine State wants to tax doctors so it can pay doctors better. No logic need apply.
This sounds like to sort of scam that normal people would get arrested for!
And talk about an unfair tax. Doctors already pay personal income tax and taxes through their businesses. And now, if the State legislature in Lansing has its way, doctors will be taxed just because they are doctors.
But maybe there is logic in the proposal. After all, the greedy government will be able to gather these taxes and use them for all sorts of other things while it dithers with its supposedly increased payouts for Medicaid.
Of course, the only reason the badgering Michigan pols have the temerity to float this lead balloon is because Obamacare is the talk of the day. Democrats are all about “doing something” about healthcare and these greedy state pols thought this the ideal time to institute this rip-off tax idea that would normally be laughed out of the capitol building.
Naturally these mavens of big taxing and big government used this as an opportunity to indulge in a little class warfare, too.
Rep. Gary McDowell (D-Rudyard) was quite pleased that his plan would hit those evil “high-end” doctors hardest.
“The ones who will object will be those who don’t have Medicaid patients, and they tend to be the high-end doctors,” he said.
Yeah, who cares if those rich doctors don’t like this unfair and perhaps unconstitutional tax? Hey, I have an idea. Let’s tax politicians! Yeah, let’s say, maybe, a tax of 100% on their earnings as a politician and then we can use that money to pay them back 40% of the salaries!
Seems equitable to me.
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on September 25, 2009 12:47 pm
» Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Barack Obama, Delusional Dupes and DUmmies, Democrats, Economy, Government, Government corruption, Government malfeasance/misfeasance, Healthcare, Liberal World, News, Socialism, State Government, Stupidity, Taxes, Unequal taxation, liberalism, political opportunism
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“This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering… And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it’s train wretchedness and oppression.” — Thomas Jefferson
actually Michigan is the great lakes state or the wolverine state.
The badgers are in Wisconsin I believe.