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The new healthcare law is also designed to take money from the poorest group, the young, who hardly use the heath care, and transfer it to the wealthiest group, the old, who are the ones driving up the costs. We live in backwards land.
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My worthless anecdote; wife's catastrophic insurance plan ($5k deductible) went from $98/mo to $211/mo. She makes $20k/yr. If her income was not supplemented by mine, she would go from paying 6% of gross income for health insurance she will never use, to 12% of gross income. It is illegal for her to not have insurance (although this is not constitutional), and at her income level (not poor enough), there is no subsidy.
I understand the need of insurance to spread risk over the whole population, but the system we have now contains all of the worst aspects of Capitalism and Socialism.
What does all this have to do with increasing gas tax? It reduces individual ability to find their own way to succeed, 12 cents or 200 bucks at a time.