On Health Care at Least, the USA is About to Become Backwards Even by the Standards of Backward

Yes, this is a fiasco and cements the US as a nation outside of the mainstream and moving resolutely to full third world status. Obama definitely does not deserve reelection, and most likely will not get it, because either this will never be enacted, or will be proved to be a failure before the 2012 election.

It is proving to be the case that almost everything Obama says is a lie.

What Obama is now ready to sign is pretty much the opposite of what he has stated he wants. What it really is, when all false rhetoric is stripped away, is a massive, heavily regressive tax.

For anyone who does not know: a regressive tax is one where people with lower incomes pay a greater percentage of their income in tax than do people with higher incomes. A massively regressive tax is one where people with lower incomes not only pay a greater percentage, but they pay a greater actual tax, than do people with higher incomes.

What is being threatened is a massively regressive tax, pure and simple. Not only is it grossly unjust and doomed to failure (as hordes of people simply refuse to comply or are unable to comply) but, worse still actually, it is certain, to one degree or another, to dig the economy into an even bigger hole than it already is in. (And you thought the economy could not get worse, laugh out loud.)

Moreover, this whole thing is unprecedented; never before in world history has a government collected money for a specific private industry in what is supposed to be a free economy and society. Even talking about this, let alone enacting it, proves that the US is not a true free country and does not have a true free economy.

A tax (a mandate, if you insist) resembling this one would be anathema not only in the numerous countries that have faced the music and have gotten health costs and health injustice under control, but it would even be anathema in many of the backward countries that do not have decent health care systems.

The US is becoming backward even by the standards of the backward. I mean, if this goes through, from an economics and especially from an economics fairness perspective, now there will be obscure, poor countries with better health systems than the US.

But since Obama needs to cover up his lie that "he would not raise taxes on those earning less than $250,000, it can not be called a tax, so this tax is with rhetorically perverted to be a "mandate". Folks, "mandate" is simply another word for a tax, and/or it is a specialized tax.

Obama is proving to be a dangerous, narcissistic liar.