Sometimes The Truth Is Worse

After reading Max Baucus's absurd health care proposal earlier today, something about it stuck in my brain and bothered me for the rest of the day. I couldn't figure out what exactly but it wouldn't go away.

Later tonight, when I was reading the transcript of the Obama speech, going over the same lines, same spin, same lies, one lie stood out above the rest; the one where Obama promises not to add to the deficit with a new healthplan.

This lie stood out because it is such a mathematical impossibility that it's hard to believe Obama keeps using it in high profile speeches.

Then I got to thinking that maybe Obama means it and if so, that is far worse indeed.

I get the feeling that he may think he can pay for it because after hearing his speech and seeing what Baucus put in his report on how to raise funds for the plan it is becoming increasingly clear that the massive changes in healthcare will be secondary to the primary objective which is the complete and total obliteration of the American tax code.

All of the proposed schemes that have been proposed by the administration in the Baucus plan are eliminations of tax benefits and reinstatement of the 36 & 39 percent tax brackets. It seems as if every pro-growth, pro-job, pro-consumer tax break that has been passed since Kennedy is on the block. Our progressive tax code will become a purely punitive/redistributive one. Combine that with the massive cuts to Medicare/Medicaid and focus on green jobs, which Spain figured out results in an overall job reduction, and the resulting situation is a scary mix of massive job loss, inflation and a decline in services for the poor and elderly. This will cause a greater dependence on government welfare programs completing the circle that liberals have worked so long and hard to implement.

With all of these massive cuts and tax increases, Obama may actually be able to claim a trillion dollars in savings to even out the books for healthcare. Not that it matters, every dollar the government collects it spends immediately. That's why all our major welfare programs are completely bankrupt.

This isn't really too surprising I guess. All liberal programs and policies are just various end arounds to get a hold of taxpayer money, this might just be the most elaborate, expansive money grab yet.