re: Babble Talk: The Candidates Health Plans

brighteyes — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:18:56 GMT

But, now much in raised taxes are you gonna pay with Obama? By they time you add up the taxes you will pay, you will be better off getting $5k from McCain and paying for your own insurance. Obama is not straight about the raising the taxes issue. He said that small business' with revenues over $250k will taxed higher. (Almost 50%!) But "revenue" means GROSS not net. Obama picked his words to confuse people. I GROSSED $500k and that sounds like a lot, but actually my net was only $48K. So, I will get taxed so high with Obama because I GROSSED over $250K that I can't give my employees raises or any benefits, nor can I afford to hire extra help. Hell it might even put me out of business. And I would have been better off taking that $5k from McCain and paying for my own stupid insurance.

Small business' count for over 50% of employment in the country. If small business' get taxed more....watch out American. You think you see a recession now?? Yikes! I can't even imagine!

re: Babble Talk: The Candidates Health Plans

leahsmom — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:35:12 GMT

I remember our bill, if I had paid it out of pocket, would have been close to $24K a year - part of why I'm really not interested in McCain. If he thinks continuing to tax people who make under $50K a year, and taxing those who make more than $250K, plus throwing me the bone of a fifth of my family's insurance cost, is going to swing me, he's sadly mistaken and he doesn't understand what it means to be a regular, non rich American in this country.