This is a good thing

[bigdarryl]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/05/white-southern-democrats-_n_779345.html

[FBaggins]

1. Really? Then welcome to an ideologically pure permanent minority.

n/t

[RandomThoughts]

2. I agree the mandate without public option was a bad idea.

Also the concept of mandate is a non progressive tax, if the health care of people was paid by a higher tax on those with far more then they earned, or more then they need, the upper brackets, it would be a progressive style of tax. By making it a mandate, it puts equal cost on people without taking into account the failures of distribution in the private sector money system that moves money to the top outside of work actually done.

However the use of some tax to supplement lower brackets is progressives.

There are people that say 40% of people don't pay taxes, that is not a condemnation of governmental taxation, but it shows how broken the distribution system in the private sector is. I think the distribution system should be corrected so that a non progressive taxation through mandate, or a system where everyone can afford some tax would make sense, and that requires an overhaul of the private sector that is consolidating wealth outside of any defendable argument accept for the ability to take money.