Bleeding us dry for our health

From the Corner:
How much will it cost you? Plenty:

The House of Representatives' health-care bill includes an income surtax that would range from 1% to 5.4% on incomes over $350,000. The Heritage Foundation's Brian Riedl and Curtis Duey did the math for us:

As calculated by the Tax Foundation, when factoring in the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, average state and local income taxes, Medicare taxes, and the new surtax, the average top marginal income tax rate in the U.S. would be 52 percent!

From Thomas Szasz:
Universal Health Care Isn't Worth Our Freedom

If we persevere in our quixotic quest for a fetishized medical equality we will sacrifice personal freedom as its price. We will become the voluntary slaves of a "compassionate" government that will provide the same low quality health care to everyone.

Pat Austin is all over this:

A picture is worth 245 billion

Starting to look at the Obamacare bill

Speaking of Obamacare: How about taxing the uninsured? From Ed Morrissey:

Keith provides two scenarios, both entirely plausible, to demonstrate how the CBO determined that eight million people — around 20% of the current uninsured — would likely end up with no insurance and higher taxes. The mandate in the bill would force people to choose between paying the taxes or paying as much as three times as much for health insurance, assuming a family plan.

Follow-up: Reasons to call your representative now to stop this monster.

Comments welcome.

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