Jim Durbin
2008-03-07 09:24:34
It gets worse. Currently Medicare and Medicaid pay for those over 65, funded out of our payroll taxes.
Thus the high cost of healthcare is really a wealth transfer from young, poor people to rich white Boomers. It’s no wonder so many affluent Boomers are Democrats. They’re on the best side of a regressive tax system.
An excellent article. It belongs on the front page of every paper in the country.
I’d like to see this question asked of a presidential candidate in one of those Youth Forums.
