Reply To: Voting thoughts

To Joseph – I hear what you’re saying and am not disagreeing. For all I know, maybe changing benefit levels etc will force healthcare providers to change rates, etc, and maybe in the end the US government will pay less and more people will end up healthy! Since the US government can’t afford all of this, maybe it shouldn’t be paying so much to help the poor. And right, maybe the current benefits are too high in some sense. Instead of a family of 4 receiving $649 a month, maybe they should receive only $465, or only $65, or nothing. Who knows; I don’t think there’s a right or wrong about this.

I’m just asking about whether these changes will make many of us, who have family and friends that really depend on them, to change our views of the president. He ran on a platform of helping the regular people. Instead he’s proposing tax changes that would substantially benefit the wealthy and substantially hurt those with less. I know my friends will feel this even if it’s just changing benefit levels etc.