Tea Party Demonstrations Starting
Whenever I hear that a “Tea Party” demonstration/opposition march is starting it always brings me back to the days of sitting in a classroom, talking about the Boston Tea Party, one of the first organized events that gathered folks to protest government spending. Sometimes I forget that these demonstrations still exist, but it does bring back a sort of sense of collective nostalgia, that we once did this before in the early days of American government, and we all once learned about this famous piece of history sitting in a classroom somewhere in the US, in the thick of winter or beginnings of summer.
The Tea Party movement, which is demonstrated by the Tea Party Express organization, gathers to protest things like wasteful government spending and the under utilization of american tax dollars, which we have all known has been a problem since the day Americans started to be federally taxed.
This time, the demonstrators are protesting the specific wasteful spending that has been identified in the newer stimulus packages, and also something dubbed “Obamacare”, which is his administration’s healthcare plan which has come under a lot of scrutiny for it’s dependence on American tax dollars to fund the health care plans for the public who cannot get healthcare through their employers.
The arguments against this health plan have been aplenty, and there has been a lot of controversy surrounding the plan’s dependence on tax dollars and increase of corporate and employed person’s costs to support the rest of the country. A lot of people I know that are in healthcare are opposed to the plan, but there are also some who see it’s merits, I think it really depends on the point of view you support, and it big time depends on whether you have democratic or republican based philosophies when it comes to social programs.
I tend to be a mix of the two. I see the merits of a public health plan, but I also see how it can actually not benefit those that do have employer paid healthcare, and may ultimately be the burden of the higher paying tax payers.
That part worries me. Don’t get me wrong, I will support whatever is for the greater good, however, the part that gets to I guess the more selfish part of me is that I may be pitching in a lot more than my fair share because I might be in the upper tier of tax payers. I definitely am against paying higher taxes or penalties for a public healthcare system, as I feel there is already a lot of wasted money out there that can be better compartmentalized by the government instead of them adding a higher tax burden.
