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Simply raising taxes to finance promised Medicare benefits wouldlikely prove counterproductive because the economic costs would beprohibitive, even if policymakers use new tax revenues to pay downdeficits and debt. Raising payroll and personal income taxes tofinance Medicare over just the next 10 years could reduce totalemployment by an average of nearly 816,000 jobs and depress realGDP by an average of almost $87 billion per year.

Of subsidies and tax credits. but compared to obamacare, the senate bill provides way less help for less coverage. insurers will still not be able to deny people coverage based on a pre-existing condition for now. and parents can still keep children on their health plans until the age of 26. now, my friend ali velshi, this does not look like a health care bill. >> something very strange about this is that the complaint has been that there's no private, real private insurance in america and that obamacare is spiraling out of control. but take a look at these tax cuts that are in this bill. this...

They would stabilize the funding for 911 services by extending the line charge from land lines to cell lines, not a tax on calling the 911 center. >> what do you find when you're out there meeting voters. how much of this stuff is getting through, and how much are they sorting out? what is it that you're finding they really care about? the taxing 911 calls or not taxing 911 calls, versus what's going to happen to social security, what's going to happen to taxes next year? you are in favor of the bush tax cuts expiring on some of the brackets, not expiring on others. christine o'donnell wants t...