Originally Posted by bhutocracy

Yeah, the entitlement programs people pay their taxes into are growing as the population ages and medical expenses outstrip inflation. Congratulations you've just shown that we're living longer not "moar socialism".

I'll shit in one hand and hold out the other waiting for tickets from the right wingers here to go back to the 90% marginal tax rates in the 60's (you know, when there was a large middle class) and see which one fills up first.

The conservative part of Obamacare was mostly the mandate. Forcing people to take "individual responsibility" and of course, a massive gift to the health insurance parasites.
If Obamacare was "left" at all there would have been a public option to at least control costs. Which was supposed to be the whole point of the exercise, reduce the % of entitlements by getting a rein on medical care inflation. Instead they gifted 30 million people to the insurance companies. Classic corporatism. Early next year they'll increase the retirement age (but not remove the artificial cap on payroll tax which would fix it pretty much by itself) reduce corporate taxes and other measures in a "grand bargain" and Obama will pretend he was forced into it.