So what’s the deal with this SCHIP business?
I usually don’t follow debates about health care because I get mine for free. So, I really don’t have much of a dog in the fight.
However, this whole SCHIP debate has reared up lately, and frankly, I wasn’t sure what to think. The left is claiming conservatives are trying to pull health care from poor, widdle children (it’s always “for the children”) and smeared some 12-year-old kid in the process. The right, on the other hand, says that’s a load of crap - they just don’t want the liberals to expand the program to include even some adults.
The Heritage Foundation explains it from the conservative standpoint and I have to admit, I prefer their proposal.
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I know, many of you are saying that “smoking is bad, so if we tax smokers for this program, it will make them quit.” Yeah sure, we can tax the bad old smokers. Of course, that may very well reduce the amount of smokers. So, with fewer smokers producing fewer tax dollars, how will the government fund this program? Hmm, I’m thinking it will have to be funded by folks like myself who don’t smoke!
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Typical liberal solution - shortsighted, only adds to the problem in the long run, and usually costs a lot of money.
When I lived in Seattle, there was a proposal that cigarette smokers would be taxed to pay for sewage processing costs - like smokers were the only ones who flushed. At the same time, continuing limitations on where they could smoke.