Quote Originally Posted by Sasquatch View Post
If the people that were getting it were the ones that were paying for it, I'd still say no. For one thing, it wouldn't have the funding to run. Think about it -- let's have a program to help those who supposedly can't afford to help themselves, and let's make them pay for it. How would that help?

But more importantly, it's not the government's (taxpayers') obligation to provide healthcare. If it was VOLUNTARY, and only the people receiving the benefits would pay into it, I'd support it, but like I said, it wouldn't have enough funding.
Um, I wasn't speaking anything based on the healthcare program. It's odd you attempted to mix one thing or the other. All I asked was, if there was a bill where only the part of the population under a specific amount of income and that would be classified under, say, middle class or high middle class would be the people that pay taxes, would you support it or not? The bill wouldn't be tied to anything; no healthcare program tie-in, no federal economic aid program, no nothing. Just plain and simple; only the part of the population under a certain amount of income would pay the taxes, and those over such income wouldn't. Those taxes would be used for what they are used currently. No other change, except that I mentioned. Those who don't have to pay don't have to provide anything else to the government other than what they currently offer (sans taxes). That would be the only difference.