By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--January 1, 2011
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It struck me a moment ago that liberals tend to scream when a product like a state lottery or some other policy proposal amounts to a “tax on the poor.”… I don’t see how forcing someone in the middle class like me to spend extra HSA dollars, and to potentially cut into other revenues outside the HSA for health care goods and services, is a good reform for the middle class.Scoville has hit on something here, don’t you think? Doesn’t his question tend to make you wonder if the cure is worse than the disease? (OK, that’s my last medical metaphor, I promise) The left is always saying that when government rolls in and makes new fiat regulations that raises the costs on “the little people” — that would be you and me and the poor folks beneath our middle class existence. The left always bellows that that this is a tragedy. It is something that the left always uses for a battle cry. But here we have Obamacare careening into our lives causing us to spend more of our own hard earned cash on medicines and medical procedures that our insurance used to cover. And if it happens to the middle class, how much worse will it be for those with less money to spend? The working poor will be hardest hit by Obamacare if these rules become pervasive. So where is the left decrying this obscene raise in costs? Could it be we don’t hear it because they don’t really care about costs rising when it is their favorite program that is on the table for discussion?
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.