Associated Press, April 19, 2010: (Wisconsin) Governor Jim Doyle has signed a bill into law that imposes a tax on rural hospitals in order to generate more federal money...
Surprise, Surprise...
Couched under the premise of obtaining matching federal funds and maintaining rural care in the current environment of medicare reimbursement cuts, Wisconsin is the proud owner of yet another tax on her citizens.
I know - Obama-care is 'free' and a boon to both workers and non-contributors alike...but somehow, here is yet another example of a 'hidden' tax - one which funds yet anothern entitlement and for which the working class (as always) must pay.
"there will be no, additional taxes, on families earning less, than $250,000, a year" - in the now well know Obama staccato-like speech.
Last I knew, there were a plenty of rural Wisconsin citizens that earn substantially less than $250K/yr.
Here's a novel thought...how about cutting state and federal spending, eliminating the redistribution of state and personal income, and allowing the good people of Wisconsin to choose how they spend their hard-earned money? Including, if they so desire, for rural (or urban) health care.
The real underlying question is why is the sovereign State of Wisconsin and her citizens sending money to Washington, while the state then turns around and again taxes its citizens directly, so it can subsequently apply to the federal gov't to receive SOME of it's money back to be distributed to rural hospitals making up for a medicare and state budget shortfall? Are you confused yet? Better yet, pissed off?
You should be.
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