{"id":4768,"date":"2011-12-07T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T16:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2011-12-07T11:55:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T16:55:34","slug":"another-reason-to-be-against-big-government-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4768","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason To Be Against Big Government Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new source of income to pay for big new programs will never, ever go <a href=\"http:\/\/p.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/nov\/24\/money-slated-for-health-law-gets-detoured\/\" target=\"_blank\">to paying just for the program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In cash-strapped Washington, President Obama\u2019s $1 trillion health care law is presenting a tempting target for lawmakers seeking funds for other projects, as Congress last week raided the health care piggy bank for the third time in less than a year.<\/p>\n<p>Congress last week axed a part of Democrats\u2019 signature domestic achievement to find $11 billion to cover the cost of repealing a withholding tax that otherwise would have hit government contractors in 2013. Mr. Obama signed that bill into law on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The withholding bill follows two other efforts \u2014 one in December and another in April \u2014 that reworked the health care law to squeeze savings for other priorities. The December bill funded higher payments for doctors who treat Medicare patients, and the April legislation repealed a paperwork provision in the original health care law that businesses said would be onerous.<\/p>\n<p>All told, Congress and the president have tapped some $50 billion earmarked to pay for benefits and programs in the health care overhaul in future years to fund more-immediate spending needs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In order to game the cost estimates (which only look out 10 years in the future), the health care bill started colleting taxes for a few years first before benefits hit. But a pile of money sitting around doing nothing (presently) is something Congress just can&#8217;t stand to see. So, it&#8217;s more than just giving DC too much power is a bad idea, but giving them the money to exercise that power means that their influence will expand even beyond the program itself.<\/p>\n<p>Not a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new source of income to pay for big new programs will never, ever go to paying just for the program. In cash-strapped Washington, President Obama\u2019s $1 trillion health care law is presenting a tempting target for lawmakers seeking funds for other projects, as Congress last week raided the health care piggy bank for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,18,275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government","category-healthcare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}