Paul Krugman channels Sarah Palin, admits Death Panels will be required to keep Obamacare solvent
I'm guessing that Sparky McEnron didn't realize he was being videotaped:
Eventually we do have a problem. That the population is getting older, health care costs are rising... there is this question of how we’re going to pay for the programs. The year 2025, the year 2030, something is going to have to give...
We’re going to need more revenue... Surely it will require some sort of middle class taxes as well... We won’t be able to pay for the kind of government the society will want without some increase in taxes... on the middle class, maybe a value added tax...
And we’re also going to have to make decisions about health care, doc pay for health care that has no demonstrated medical benefits.
So the snarky version... which I shouldn’t even say because it will get me in trouble is death panels and sales taxes is how we do this.
Remember all the crap Palin caught for the "death panels" remark? Looks like she was on the mark again. But, hey, she talks funny, didn't go to an Ivy League school [I'd ban any Ivy League Alum from EVER working in government], and resigned before her term was up [when Alaska's poorly written ethics laws allowed local Dims to put her 500K in hock on legal fees]. So why give her any respect or consideration for any role in the GOP?