how would the elimination of tax breaks have stopped this? they would still be trying to get the leaches free insurance at the cost of the working class
Progressive-ism 101; get a little bit, all the time. Always be 'progressing'.
The underlying premise of modern liberalism, leftists, socialists, progressives, is that YOU are getting ripped off and are owed. That they are there to make life fair for YOU.
It is easy to show how Wall Street is ripping YOU off, because it so blatantly did and is. Never mind why. It just did and is.
Bottom line is that TARP was wrong, way, way wrong IF you are a small government, personal responsibility type. If we bail out the rich, it is impossible to argue against 'helping' anyone and everyone. Goose, gander. Simply to understand.
It is easy to show how YOU are being treated unfairly in terms of health care because THEY get all these nice perqs and YOU get none. Never mind why. It just is.
Health insurance, same thing. If YOU were buying your own health care from the get go, just getting paid your money and then go take care of your business as you see fit, health care would cost WAY less, better service and much less argument to give it to others.
Most people defend it as this or that agreement with their employer. Well, that changes nothing in the fact that it is STILL subsidized by everyone else
via the tax code and it makes things exponentially worse in terms of any sort of market discipline for cost and service when someone else is paying it for you.
The 1986 Emergency Health Care thing Reagan signed into law was a typical government response to the problem; some people have this or that (government subsidized health care) so, instead of taking that away, the proper limited government approach, we give more away.
It's just gotten worse from there.