Friday, February 8, 2008

more on getting to give the government your hard earned cash

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Hillary: Garnish wages for my health plan?

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Hillary Clinton, on the morning shows (George Stephanopoulos), says garnishing (seizing) a portion of people's wages is one option on the table for enforcing the individual mandate to buy health insurance that is part of her universal coverage.

Of course, it's been one of the options on the table since she unveiled the plan last summer, but much of the press never made anything about it until Obama started attacking the idea of requring people to pay for something they either didn't want or didn't think they could afford from a libertarian point of view.

She says, with subsidies and premium reductions, everyone will be able to afford it, and lashes back at Obama: "It's so reminiscent of old 'Harry and Louise' talking about how, 'Oh, the sky will fall if we try to have universal health care.' He's playing right in to all of the arguments against this core value of the Democratic Party,"

But still -- does she really want to be making the case for wage garnishment two days before Super Tuesday?

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