If you recall, Paul Krugman, the uber-liberal economist that never met a stimulus he didn’t like, was caught supporting “death panels” on the This Week Program. That was in 2011. Well, he was caught again. Doug Ross (no relation) and Weasel Zippers have the details…
I’m guessing that Sparky McEnron didn’t realize he was being videotaped:
Eventually we do have a problem. That the population is getting older, health care costs are rising… there is this question of how we’re going to pay for the programs. The year 2025, the year 2030, something is going to have to give…
We’re going to need more revenue… Surely it will require some sort of middle class taxes as well… We won’t be able to pay for the kind of government the society will want without some increase in taxes… on the middle class, maybe a value added tax…
And we’re also going to have to make decisions about health care, doc pay for health care that has no demonstrated medical benefits.
So the snarky version… which I shouldn’t even say because it will get me in trouble is death panels and sales taxes is how we do this.
Note that he’s following the old liberal policy of “calling it something else.” You see, it won’t be a death panel, because they’ll call it something else!
Oh, and by the way, if you’re an Obama voter, and you, or one of your loved ones gets their plug pulled by ObamaCare, just remember that you voted for it. Elections have consequences.
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It’s kind of ironic that the CDC appears to be again ramping up their anti-smoking propaganda to justify even higher taxes against smokers to help cut their budget shortfalls while pushing death panels on us. If indeed smokers live seven years less on average as they claim, that would be part of the solution to their problems they created to buy votes with seven years less medical care and less pension/social security payments.
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2013/01/25/smoking-still-takes-a-heavy-toll-in-us-cdc-finds
It’s like they’re saying they need to keep all their livestock as healthy as possible until they can make the decision as to which ones are no longer useful to them.
Don’t forget that Paul Krugman also advocated the faking of a ‘space alien invasion’ as a method to ‘stimulate the economy’.