2008 Woodie Awards
Monetary policy anyone?
Kevin Conner
Issue date: 2/25/08 Section: Op-Ed
With all the promises from presidential candidates flying around, I need to ask the question, "Where is the money going to come from?" Across the board, from republicans to democrats, the issue of monetary policy is not showing up enough. On the Democratic side, both candidates are proposing some form of universal healthcare for our nation. That is fine and good, and I would love to see it happen, but who will bear the burden? The money needs to come from somewhere. We do not live in a storybook world where doctors and nurses work for free. If this were the case, then there would be no healthcare problem at all.
The reality is that for universal healthcare to work, we either need to borrow millions of dollars from other nations, or increase federal taxes dramatically. The same young yuppies all gung-ho for universal healthcare might start singing a different tune when they realize that they are the ones who are going to have to pay for it. It will not be the lower income families bearing the burden of universal healthcare; it will be those with the money.
Now, I am a compassionate person who loves to help those in need - but just how much will it take? Right now I do not have more than a couple hundred dollars to my name - is that enough? Surely, it is not. If you eliminate the need to pursue your own healthcare, then what is left? Television? Cell phones? What will drive us all to become the people we need to be to dictate our own lives? I suppose it is all the same really - we either provide for our families or the government takes from us to provide for us. But I would rather do it myself.
Though higher taxes should be the only answer to our universal healthcare problem, it will not be. The attempt will be made to "borrow" money from countries such as China and Saudi Arabia to get the program off the ground. We cannot do this. We are so in debt to other countries that it is borderline insanity. I would like to know where all of OUR money is. We have to make something. Anything? Hardly. That is the problem.
The reality is that for universal healthcare to work, we either need to borrow millions of dollars from other nations, or increase federal taxes dramatically. The same young yuppies all gung-ho for universal healthcare might start singing a different tune when they realize that they are the ones who are going to have to pay for it. It will not be the lower income families bearing the burden of universal healthcare; it will be those with the money.
Now, I am a compassionate person who loves to help those in need - but just how much will it take? Right now I do not have more than a couple hundred dollars to my name - is that enough? Surely, it is not. If you eliminate the need to pursue your own healthcare, then what is left? Television? Cell phones? What will drive us all to become the people we need to be to dictate our own lives? I suppose it is all the same really - we either provide for our families or the government takes from us to provide for us. But I would rather do it myself.
Though higher taxes should be the only answer to our universal healthcare problem, it will not be. The attempt will be made to "borrow" money from countries such as China and Saudi Arabia to get the program off the ground. We cannot do this. We are so in debt to other countries that it is borderline insanity. I would like to know where all of OUR money is. We have to make something. Anything? Hardly. That is the problem.
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