Yes! Give everyone the same average $700 taxpayer subsidy Congress gets! Medicare Part E- Everyone!
98%
No! Let Congress continue to get their healthcare subsidies - Us? Let them eat cake!
2%
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There is always someone willing to vote against their own interest. What a disgrace!
Can't believe so few votes!!! Take care Thom & Louise.
Site Issue? I couldn't get to the voting without several tries but finally it came up. Still, it is utterly amazing that sheeple are so willing to swallow the memes initiated by mainstream media.
I voted yes because of the way that the actual question was phrased. As for congress being hypocrites, I do not agree with that.
Those in congress that oppose health care for everyone are not hypocrites, they are merely greedy and self serving. I am sure that they think that the powerful like themselves should have health care even if it's provided by government. They merely want to the poor and oppressed to continue to be poor and oppressed.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Of course Representatives who vote against health care for ordinary citizens should automatically forfit their government sponsered insurance.
terry
The very definition of hypocrisy!
Like many of us, our Congressmen and Senators are probably the primary earners in their families, and provide healthcare insurance coverage for their spouse and all their children, too.In their positions, they receive tremendous services and gratuities - receptions at the Capitol, 24-hour security, constant references to their upper-class status, committee staffers to write research, speeches and talkng points, the occasional chauffer and limosine..
In a nutshell the people who represent us in Washington for 2 to 6 years really become different from the other 99% of us, and very much in line with the other one percent of 7-figure leaders of American corporations and their children.
The flip side of the comparison raises the question: are the handfuls of leaders of American corporations more really more valuable to us than the volunteer members of Congress or the White House? I don't think so.
Our income and wealth tax system should reflect that intrinsic American egalitarianism. If it doesn't, America becomes an transnational oligarchy, and our legislators are just their token members and tools.
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