texas's response to obamacare

PostmodernProphet said:
to put money into healthcare the state will have to increase taxes to obtain the money......taxes are monies taken out of the economy....thus the money you are referring to is already "flowing through the economy".....
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Even assuming the accuracy of your claim about taxes, the government will spend the money, thus putting it back into the economy.
 
SmarterthanYou said:
shovel ready jobs? that how that works?
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Since you brought it up, we had shovel-ready jobs here. For all the people who claim they never saw any evidence of "shovel-ready".

PennDOT ramping up efforts on curb cuts

Lawsuits prompt budgeting of $820 million to improve access for disabled
March 16, 2012 1:58 am

By Jonathan D. Silver / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Lawsuits have prompted the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to budget $820 million over the next decade to replace 117,000 handicapped curb ramps along state roads -- a program that attorneys say would be unnecessary had the agency installed the ramps properly the first time.

This year $28 million of that cost will come from federal stimulus money, which is being allocated for "shovel-ready" projects.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories...up-efforts-on-curb-cuts-364643/#ixzz20FHX10SS
 
Damocles said:
It doesn't "help the economy" any more than it makes you richer to take money from your left pants pocket and put it into your right pants pocket.

However, it is not a zero sum game. If the hospitals hire more doctors to take care of more patients, that will help the economy. Expanding the tax base is the way to go, this means more people in more jobs that are not government jobs. (You can't expand the tax base by taking money from the treasury only to receive only a portion of that money back, government jobs do not expand the tax base.) Of course, if the return on your investment is less than the money you outlay it is a net negative to the government coffers.
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Just a question...where are the new doctors going to come from? And the new nurses and PA's to assist the doctors? It is my understanding that this is one of the areas where there are already more jobs available than people to do them...at least in some areas of the country. Could be wrong, just going on feeble memory.
 
General Buck Turgidson said:
Well, your claim was that it would suck money out of the economy. It doesn't.
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I said that in response to the claim it was going to pump money into the economy......it doesn't.....it sucks it out and moves it somewhere else.......of course you knew that, but had to shift gears because you ended up looking the fool again.....
 
PostmodernProphet said:
I said that in response to the claim it was going to pump money into the economy......it doesn't.....it sucks it out and moves it somewhere else.......of course you knew that, but had to shift gears because you ended up looking the fool again.....
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Well, it actually does pump money into the economy. I was conceding your assertion on taxes simply to dispute your claim that it sucks money out of the economy.
 
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