stlouiedipalma;737205 wrote:Have you got a link on that 60 Minutes article? Or is it one of those "I know a friend who knows somebody and they said..."?

I don't make shit up, thanks.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/60_minutes/video/?pid=rHgmVWcA9rp3NdUHY63IbYQQFmfWAHuk

Thanks for posting that link. Although I no longer watch 60 Minutes, I found the piece well-done. Particularly disturbing was the fact that, even if the tax rate here was lowered to 20% it wouldn't be enough to lure any of these companies back. You would need to get to single digits to attract many of them, and I don't see anyone calling for that just yet. I was hoping to find out if the labor rate in Switzerland and Ireland is considerably lower than for comparable jobs here in the U.S., but they never went into that.

Still, thanks for the link.

sleeper;737741 wrote:Then I know what is covered and what isn't from the certain premium that I pay. If I don't like it, I can find another insurance company or pay higher premiums for something that I'd like covered. If none of those options are available, then I can save my money and deal with the issue if it arrives.

NAW...That would mean YOU would control where your health care dollars are going, not the Great Nanny State. The Feds are much more qualified to spend your money than you.

We probably ought to consider sending you to a government-run re-education camp where you can be properly indoctrinated. Apparently our school systems have failed to mold your mind in the officially prescribed liberal political agenda.

Thinking for yourself simply will not be tolerated.

Missouri's Democratic AG Files Brief In Support Of Healthcare Law Challenge.
Print media sources highlighted a report on Monday indicating that a Democratic attorney general was taking a stance against President Obama's healthcare law. Some sources emphasized the fact that the law enjoys only shaky support in some parts of the country. No television networks covered the story. The New York Times (4/12, A12, Sack, Subscription Publication) reports, "Missouri's Democratic attorney general broke with his party on Monday and urged a federal judge to invalidate the central provision of the new health care law." The Times adds, "The filing of the brief by Attorney General Chris Koster, a onetime Republican state legislator who switched to the Democratic Party in 2007, underscores the act's political tenuousness in a critical Midwestern swing state." This move "followed months of pressure from state Republicans that he join attorneys general from other states who are challenging the constitutionality of the law."

The AP (4/12, Lieb) reports, "Missouri voters in August became the first in the nation to pass a measure barring the government from requiring people to have health insurance and from penalizing those who don't." Since then, "Missouri's Republican-led House and Senate each passed resolutions urging Mr. Koster to defend the new state law." Koster stated "in a letter to legislative leaders Monday that he personally supports an expansion of health coverage, but, based on his legal analysis, believes the federal law is in conflict with Missouri's new voter-approved law and goes beyond what courts previously have found to be Congress's authority to regulate interstate commerce under the US Constitution."

More on Chris Koster, from those who know a little bit about him over the years...


http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/article_e6a87d48-6487-11e0-9e2e-001a4bcf6878.html