Un-Liberaled Woman

Good grief, Smancy Pelotox (D-CA) is really my top choice for Lying Liberal of the Week. So this week the expansion of the SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program) was passed by fear tactics of “health care for the kids” from Pelotox herself. And the kicker of it all is that the funding for this $4 billion expansion comes from a huge tax hike on tobacco products.

And if you think SCHIP is actually helping children getting healthcare, think again. Here’s an article on how well the last consideration for SCHIP ended up with results.

In some states, SCHIP enrollment could fall while Medicaid enrollment increases. If the incoming Obama Administration revokes the Bush Administration’s guidelines to prevent the public program “crowd-out” of existing private health coverage, a handful of wealthier states would be able to expand SCHIP to children in higher income families while children at lower income levels in poorer states would be left uncovered.

No worries though, I also blame all the Republicans who voted for this bill as well. Guess who didn’t vote for the bill? McCain! How do you like them apples??? Michelle Malkin’s got the full story. Along with the bill also comes the elimination of standards put into the first bill to lessen the capabilities of illegal immigrants taking advantage of healthcare paid for by legal citizen taxpayers. 

Obama’s praise for the provision loosening of eligibility for legal immigrants and their children (a “first step” toward allowing illegal aliens to partake of the bounty) garnered the most applause from the audience and members of Congress.

Check out the vid at the link of Rep. King who articulates the point very well and calls out Obama on his hypocrisy when during the debates insisted he was the better candidate over McCain because folks making under $250k would see no NEW taxes of any kind. I guess that was just “campaign rhetoric” again.  How DARE voters hold a politician to their campaign promises! Don’t think these new tobacco taxes affect those making less than $250k. Check this out then from HealthCare BS Blog.

The study shows that elasticity of demand for tobacco products depends largely on socioeconomic status. As prices go up, better off smokers tend to quit. However, for smokers further down the ladder, price doesn’t have the same effect.

This is very similar to FDR raising taxes on liquor and tobaccoto help fund his failing New Deal. Helping out the poor by passing huge taxes on the products used mainly by the lower and middle economic classes. Can you feeeeeeeeeel the brilliance in Keynesian economics? All it creates is a cycle effect in taxes and govt. spending that produces nothing but confusion to cloud people’s perception of the big picture.  It’s the old bait and switch – sell the policy as if you’re about helping the needy and lower economic class and that you’re going to make “the rich” pay their “fair” share in taxes. Oh but then forget to mention when it comes time to craft the actual legislation that the funding is coming by taxing goods & services most used by the lower economic class. 

And how these politicians are still elected into office AMAZES me!