Quote Originally Posted by MMI View Post
an employee has deductions made from his salary/wages according to the size of his income.
First, I am hoping this works.... I've never successfully done the quote thing.

Our illustrious Montana Senator has decided that if we don't buy insurance we will be fined what averages to about $300 per month. There is a bunch of us middle-class folks that make too much money for assistance (wouldn't take it anyway) but not enough for insurance. So where is the logic in fining us, which after that, we still won't have insurance anyway? To quell any naysayers, we don't have high-speed internet, or cell phones, or smoke, or have fancy cars, or go to movies, or any of the other stuff folks think they need. We butcher our own meat, too. The $ just aren't there for over $1,000 per month for insurance. We can cover the $300 if push comes to shove, such as no longer donating 400-600 pounds of food to the food bank each year. I like the idea of health-care tax, based on income. We would have insurance and the food bank would get donations (dropped off 37.4 pounds today).