Indeed, we have death panels right now. They are administered by private insurance comapnies, and my wife is the victim of one.
Your wife “is” the victim of a death panel? How’s that possible?
Her doctor got her into a stem cell transplant program, but the death panel at Blue Cross/Blue Shield denied her claim. Her illness is progressive, degenerative, and inevitably fatal. She will die from her disease without the stem cell transplant.
This is for the benefit of other readers. I will not discuss this further with you.
No need to discuss further, but you have my sympathy.
Death panels is an irritating word designed to motivate folks by fear. But the reality of the death panel concept is as old as the history of humans. And they certainly do exist at present.
Only now I think they would call it cost effectiveness.
Any argument against same-sex marriage, that includes the phrase, “sanctity of marriage.” Or really the notion that any other person’s relationship in this world somehow has an effect on my marriage, either positive or negative.
“Drink/drank the Kool-aid” (yea, I know it was supposed to be Flavor-Aid. Shut up).
Anyone who uses that phrase automatically marks themselves out in my book as someone who is not willing to engage in good-faith discussion.
I rank that one right up there with telling your opponent he’s just being part of the “hive mind”. Pisses me right off, that one does.
ETA: Not referring to you, of course. Just people in general.
Can we please take out and shoot “middle class”?! 85% of the country thinks they’re in the middle class. Politicians only use it as code for “you and yours”, as in “We’ll hurt someone, but not you and yours.”
Federal, State, or Local? Or maybe Provincial? Please tell me which is THE government, so I know which are illegitimate.
“The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.”
(John C. Calhoun, February 13, 1835)
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. (Abe Lincoln)
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. (Winston Churchill)
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. (Ronald Reagan)
That was Tina Fey (Youtube. Hope I linked the right one).
Pretty sure that refers to the post-revolution immigration, not the colonists. And “single moms” pisses me off because I know a lot of single dads out there.
How about “but it’s for the children!”
ooh, here’s another one. “Katy bar the door.” It started popping up a lot in the health-care debate. I can’t be sure why this antique phrase started making a comeback, except to terrify people who are old enough to have heard it used unironically in the past. I cannot possibly take serious anyone who uses this phrase.
I’m surprised that no one mentioned “death tax”. Maybe the usual suspects are learning.
Well, now that you mention it, “death tax” is about as bad as it gets.
How come Dio ?
It’s paid when you die. I know that everybody who dies doesn’t pay it… but neither does everyone with income pay income tax.
Because it’s not paid by the person who dies. It’s paid by the heirs. It’s not a “death tax,” it’s an inheritance tax – basically a windfall income tax – and it’s only paid on estates worth $1 million or more.
Because it is the estate tax – which wasn’t a problem for middle class folks, because they thought, “Well, I don’t have an estate, so whatever.” But then the GOP surreptitiously re-dubbed it the “death tax” in order to provoke outrage from those same rubes with their gripes about, “Typical gubmint, they even charge you to die”.
BFD … it’s paid by somebody because somebody died.
No it isn’t, otherwise every death wouold incur the tax. Since that does not occur, the mechanism of the tax is clearly not death, it is the transfer of income over $1 million. That happens every time. QED.
Yeah, but nobody goes around calling it the ‘life tax’ either.
This.
Ah, yes. It makes perfect sense now. Wait, no, it’s still ridiculous.
The trigger is death.
But I’ll agree to disagree … at least nobody is still trying to say that the government is giving somebody something when they are actually allowed to keep what is theirs.