Edwards: The Rich should Pay for Health Coverage

No kidding, I'm shocked. Did you see my blog about his house? He should honestly be very, very careful about weighing in on health insurance issues, given the fact that his fortune comes from being a trial lawyer. According to his biography:

"For the next 20 years, John dedicated his career to representing families and children just like the families he grew up with in Robbins. Standing up against the powerful insurance industry and their armies of lawyers, John helped these families through the darkest moments of their lives to overcome tremendous challenges. His passionate advocacy for people like the folks who worked in the mill with his father earned him respect and recognition across the country."

Helped them hard, from behind, and enough so to be able to afford a $6 million, 102 acre compound complete with tennis courts, basketball court, theater, etc. If he has a soft spot to aim for, that would be it. This man has bled money from us, people who pay insurance premiums, and from the VICTIMS he represented. It's like a leech discussing the health of the host.

Every time he evokes the issue of health care costs, he will have to hope people don't remember that HE IS RESPONSIBLE for them being so high.

This is just too funny.  Trial lawyers are part of the problem with healthcare in the first place.

Did you happen to see him on "Meet the DePressed?" At least I think it was Meet the DePressed. At any rate, he was on one of the Sunday press shows today. When asked if he thought we (USA) needed to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, his answer was "I can't answer that question at this time". WHAT?????? Perhaps a person may believe there are alternative avenues to stopping nuclear proliferation by nutball dictators such as sanctions or diplomacy. But the answer to the question is ABSOLUTELY! In truth, all he did was bash Bush and never really answered any questions. Perfect member of the Democrat Party.

I saw the Meet The Press interview and his railing on about getting the money from wealthy, killing the Bush tax cuts, and raising new revenues.  The worst part about his plan, and that of others (like Hillary Clinton) is that it would truly turn on the giant vacuum cleaner to suck illegal aliens across the Southern border if put into effect.

Don't get what I'm talking about?  Well, it's not about being racist, but it is about the idea that free health care would be one hell of an incentive to leave good ol' Mexico to come North into the U.S.A. (Mexico's northern state) where the free ride for health care would mean any income that they earned could be used for other more important things -- like helping to get even more of the family North of the border.

Uh, since I have paid off all my CC bills, does that make me rich? (Edwards = jerk!)

Uh, since I have paid off all my CC bills, does that make me rich? (Edwards = jerk!)

Anybody who isn't on some kind of government assistance is "rich" to a democrat.

Edwards is the worst form of hypocrite on so many fronts.

He barely pays any taxes because of the perfectly legal shell games he plays with his money that normal people don't.

In another couple of years when I've gotten "rich" enough to justify playing the LLC game, then fine, raise taxes.

In case there's any left-wingers here, here's the game Edwards plays (along with millions of other non-producing rich people):

Create a SERIES of LLC shell corporation that money is paid into. Then pay yourself via dividends. Those dividends are paid at the capital gains % which is 15%.  The money Edwards earns never even touches personal income tax rates.

You could raise income tax rates to 100% and Edwards wouldn't feel it at all. Neither would Kerry or Pelosi btw who do the same thing (and so do many Republicans including, eventually, me no doubt because I'm getting fed up with paying 35% to the feds and being spit on by people who barely pay anything).

 

That's a clever tax-break! It's hard to believe the American people let their legislators get away with it. If they shut that off surely it wouldn't be necessary to raise taxes. All those devious richies would be paying tonnes more, and all it would take would be the equivalent legalese for "if more than x% of your income is from dividends pay income rather than capital gains tax on that amount".