Day: September 13, 2019

Re: Elizabeth Warren’s health care plan.

She won’t answer questions about raising taxes on the middle class, so obviously taxes will be increased. The trade-off, according to her, is that health care costs in our budget will go down more than the taxes will go up.

That may be true in general. I don’t know because I have not done the math.

But my question is this. How does this affect me? I still have income, but I also have Medicare already. So if I understand her correctly, my personal taxes will go up, but I will get absolute zero in return. In essence, I will now have to start paying for something that I already have, which was earned with a lifetime of labor.

Other working people who use Medicare for their health coverage seem to be in the same boat, and a lot of seniors still work.

Is that right, or does her plan include a tax exemption for the working elderly?

“Teenager wakes up thinking every day is 11 June“

Falwell’s argument is internally inconsistent. On the one hand, he accuses the article of lies. On the other hand, he says that the e-mails which form the basis of the article are his property, which means he acknowledges that they are genuine. (If they were fakes, he could not claim to own them.)

When it comes to the legal basis of Falwell’s argument, an expert the AP spoke with called Falwell’s assertions “totally insane.” 

NOTE: forwarding an e-mail could be criminal for some reason other than personal ownership or copyright. It could be construed as an act pursuing a criminal conspiracy; it could violate privilege; it could offer information on insider trading, etc. In that regard, it is no different from any other form of communication, and there is no precedent to claim that you own your communication, written or spoken. Falwell’s argument is tantamount to saying, “You can’t quote what I said to you, because I own those words.”