Can Robin Hood tactics really be a possibility for paying our way through a universal health care plan? Taxing the rich to save the poor has always been a controversial topic but a tax on the top one percent of the public might be worth trying to save the lowest 2o percent.
The proposed tax would be taking from the top one percent that provide for the rest of the public via public investments and hiring new employees, so this tax could stifle the rest of the economy by disturbing the top. But to many this is not the case and the opposite is actually true. If taking a tiny sliver of the richest in the country could pay the way for the poorest 20 percent of the nation than the benefits to the public welfare would drastically outweigh the discourse of the rich.
This surtax would not hit small businesses hard as many critics have said. Not only that but only the profits of small businesses would be taxed and the firm would have to make over $350,000 in profits. A surtax would be easy to administer and it is fairly straightforward and easy for the public to understand. So it is very possible for the richest of the rich to pay the way for the uncovered poor to have the chance to finally be protected.
The rich should definitely be taxed in order to assist with covering the uninsured (which includes not just the poor). The top tier income holders seem to complain about any tax that is placed upon them, but the fact that there is so little of them who hold much of the countries wealth requires them to hold some obligation to bettering the lives of the "have-not's". It seems as if the people on "Main Street" get so misinformed by Obama's plan to tax the rich, and they get all tense because they think that includes them and there "Joe the Plumber-esque" businesses. They fail to look deeper into his taxation plan and realize that it 1, isn't that much, and two, ends up helping a number of individuals who have don't have the means to afford necessities such as health care.
ReplyDeleteI believe that those top individuals who complain about a tax should be ashamed of themselves. They should put themselves in the shoes of the less fortunate and realize that a life without health care is no life to live.