Comments on: Still As Tight As A Drum http://belowthebeltway.com/2008/09/14/still-as-tight-as-a-drum/ I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, and the personal freedom that America used to believe in. Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:00:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ben Galotta http://belowthebeltway.com/2008/09/14/still-as-tight-as-a-drum/comment-page-1/#comment-237374 Ben Galotta Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:37:52 +0000 http://belowthebeltway.com/?p=8576#comment-237374 I hope you have a lot of money hidden away for your retirement because McCain wants to tax your Social Security payments as if they were income. You could see as much as 42 % of your check taken right off the bat with no minimum income threshold. He also wants to change the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits so that there is a $3,500 mandatory deductible per recipient before coverage begins each year, essentially forcing people to pay what is being referred to as the "donut hole" before they get any of the "donut." McCain/Palin also believe that more veteran's hospitals should be closed and care should be offered only at regional centers saving taxpayers approximately $4 billion annually. McCain has proposed taxing money recovered from charity drives that help cover medical expenses if the money received equals more than half of their treatment. In other words, if you hold a benefit for your neighbor's kid who has cancer, be prepared to hand over a huge chunk to the IRS because John McCain considers it income. Are you kidding me? This one really makes me the maddest: John McCain wants veterans to pay for any prosthesis that is above the knee or elbow as the articulated prostheses are much more expensive than the smaller ones and will be limited to re-fittings every five years as opposed to "as needed" under the Bush administration. His reasoning was that veterans could do just as well or better with a wheelchair rather than an expensive prosthesis. I hope you have a lot of money hidden away for your retirement because McCain wants to tax your Social Security payments as if they were income. You could see as much as 42 % of your check taken right off the bat with no minimum income threshold.
He also wants to change the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits so that there is a $3,500 mandatory deductible per recipient before coverage begins each year, essentially forcing people to pay what is being referred to as the “donut hole” before they get any of the “donut.”

McCain/Palin also believe that more veteran’s hospitals should be closed and care should be offered only at regional centers saving taxpayers approximately $4 billion annually.

McCain has proposed taxing money recovered from charity drives that help cover medical expenses if the money received equals more than half of their treatment. In other words, if you hold a benefit for your neighbor’s kid who has cancer, be prepared to hand over a huge chunk to the IRS because John McCain considers it income. Are you kidding me?
This one really makes me the maddest: John McCain wants veterans to pay for any prosthesis that is above the knee or elbow as the articulated prostheses are much more expensive than the smaller ones and will be limited to re-fittings every five years as opposed to “as needed” under the Bush administration. His reasoning was that veterans could do just as well or better with a wheelchair rather than an expensive prosthesis.

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