Culture of Life in America
From the New York Times today:
" A decade after Tennessee inaugurated a health care plan for the state's most vulnerable residents that was hailed as a model for the nation, the program is once more being held up as a model - of failure in an era of soaring medical costs and voters' aversion to higher taxes...
'In this country, rich as it is, people shouldn't have to choose whether their child will live or die," said Angela Ray, the mother of a severely ill 12-year-old girl in Lawrenceburg. "It's amazing to me that it's come down to this.'"
And this from Thursday's Washington Post:
"The Bush administration is eyeing an overhaul of the tax code that would drastically cut, if not eliminate, taxes on savings and investment ...
To pay for them, the administration is considering eliminating the deduction of state and local taxes on federal income tax returns and scrapping the business tax deduction for employer-provided health insurance, the advisers said. "
So, in other words, at a time when states cannot afford to pay for state run health care, the Bush Administration wants to cut tax incentives for businesses to provide it as well.
Now, explain to me again how this demonstrates "reasonable ways to help promote a culture of life in America?"

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