From the Detroit News, George Bullard posted an article on January 7th 2010, saying that Obama backs $149 billion taxation on health care. Obama is putting a forty percent tax on health care on what the democrats consider “excessive”. In this case Obama is punishing virtue and the hard working people of America are paying a disproportionate amount of taxes. Whereas those that don’t work and collect welfare are benefitted for doing nothing. This article is about how he will base health care benefits on people’s level of work. The people who will be paying this $149 billion in taxes are the hard working people of America, the people whom have been “slogging away for years in factories and offices”. The problem with this is that the Democrats are the ones who are giving out the amount of health care but they aren’t the ones with medical degrees. Although we don't know what the lawmakers are doing because they have kept all of there meetings behind closed doors.
Locke would not agree with the way Obama is going here by taxing the hard working Americans. According to Locke, you work for everything you get. Also that virtue comes from work. By Obama taxing the people that have “excessive” health care plans, he is taking away from the hard working Americans. Locke in this instance would only reward these hard working Americans that have been slaving away for years just to have a better life, instead of Obama taking away from the hard working citizens.
Links: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/blogs/bullardblog/index.php?blogid=8662
I agree with you in the fact that Locke would condemn what is happening with the healthcare tax. American citizens that are on welfare, for the most part, do not partake in labor. Therefore, they should not have private property. However, they are given others private property on the Aquinas' theory of helping others sustain life. Locke would not agree with Aquinas in this example. I believe that Medicare and Medicaid do wonders for people that are living on social security or a fixed income that are no longer able to provide labor to the world. However, people that just sit around and wait for a check to come, should not be granted with that luxury.
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