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Someone will bring up social security and FICA eventually, since those are rather regressive taxes and skew the discussion. But I'd prefer to pick on GWB's health care savings accounts. The people that benefit from those accounts are those people who would otherwise be in higher income tax brackets (guess who can best afford health care already?) and who do not live from check to check and who can actually save money to put into their accounts. Yes, it's subsidizing the health care of the rich with tax dollars through tax credits. No wonder some people talk of Bush favoring welfare for the rich.

Then there's GOP senate majority leader Frist on medical malpractice "reform". Why get rid of sloppy surgeons when we can instead subsidize them at the expense of malpractice victims? It's a terrific idea, as the WORST doctors are the ones who benefit the MOST from Frist's proposal! But are the doctors that Sen. Frist is helping out the ones you want operating on your family members?

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