the rightwing czar

Eventually, er, hopefully, reality will set in and these same people will realize that it will affect them in just about all the ways they don’t want it to:

The NBC News Wall Street Journal poll asked a series of questions probing just how far folks would go in lending a helping hand to those without coverage. Would they approve the concept of raising taxes on those making $250,000 or more? Sure. How about requiring everyone to have insurance but letting government help pick up the tab for people with “low and moderate incomes.” Why not?

But when asked if they’d be willing to pay more in taxes, either on their current health care plan or in general, respondents quickly pull back. Just 33 percent agreed with the idea of taxing health care benefits for those with “generous” plans. The Diageo Hotline poll found just 26 percent of voters supported a tax on health care plans. And a Kaiser poll reported that only 41 percent of Americans were willing to pay more either in taxes or health care premiums to cover the uninsured.

Unfortunately for all of us in the majority, if ObamaCare ever materializes it’s going to hit all of our wallets hard. Private insurance companies will go out of business. Taxes will go up. And quality of care will go down.

Sounds like a blast, right?

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