Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Doctor taxes create heavy debate

Apparently, doctors don’t understand their patients and their practices as well as politicians do. Somehow, if doctors take the patients that Lansing says it should, at 35 cents on the dollar, by the way, they will benefit if Lansing taxes them at 4%. Go figure.

This kind of fuzzy math helps prevent real reform, and is very bad policy. To create a brand new tax while lawmakers are locked behind closed doors, in the middle of the night, is never good.

Very passionate debate, for the most part; though one colleague said that raising taxes is like a "revolution" and one said, “84% of the people working need to pay for the 14% that aren't”

I'm voting no.

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