Answer for: Would you pay extra taxes to help put a good health care system into place?
#2 No- Take the Money from the "Defense" Budget!
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For the first part of its history, this nation was too isolationist. Now we meddle everywhere, usually with less than honorable intentions. We would do well to fix our problems at home instead.
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No, don't condemn our troops! Don't blame them, look how that turned out in Vietnam. Instead, take the money from where it truly doesn't belong. Take Bush and Comp.'s salaries (with interest).
Don't forget the defense budget doesn't just include the troops it also includes a vast arsenal of bombs, planes, vehicles, ships, and bases. Also one could argue that outside of a war scenario we can safely cut back the defense budget without harming the troops.
point taken, I still say we take Bush's money though ;)
Bush only gets paid about $400,000, plus benefits, a year for being president. That and the pay from his cronies won't go a long way in improving the health care system.
* President: $400,000; $50,000 expense account; $100,000 nontaxable for travel; $19,000 official entertainment account; free housing
* Vice president: $208,100; $10,000 expense account; free housing
* Presidential Cabinet member (i.e. secretary of defense, attorney general, etc.): $157,000
Whereas the defence budget in 2007 was $439.3 billion. Which doesn't include the extra-budgetary supplements for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which was $170 billion in 2007.
So if you pulled out of both those theatres you could save $170 billion without cutting the money going to troops.
I reckon $170 billion would go a lot further than the paltry sum you'd get from the Dubya and buddies paychecks. Although I doubt it would be enough and more would be needed.
I'd take Bush's money too, just to be a twat though :-)