Republicans better handle the economy than Democrats

I shall now provide a rebuttal of my opponents arguments. "It has caused premiums in nearly all states to go up and is actually causing many people to loose their health insurance or chane their plans." This is a statement from the Obamacare website on this. "The primary cause of the insurance premium rate hikes under ObamaCare is the requirement for insurers to cover high-risk consumers. Insurance companies can no longer deny Americans with pre-existing conditions and can't charge higher rates based on health status or gender. These factors, along with a few other required benefits, rights and protections (like the elimination of lifetime and annual dollar limits) have led to rate increases over the past few years. The good news is that many Americans can now get reduced premium rates and lower out-of-pocket costs by enrolling in a plan on their State's health insurance marketplace." [1] This means that increases are not caused through any malevolent goals. It also shows that insurance rates have been rising faster than inflation since 1999. Another thing that you fail to mention is that the way Obamacare works people who earn more pay higher rates, while those who earn less pay less. Progressive taxes as I have shown benefit the economy. Someone who earns 400 times as much as someone else won't spend 400 times as much thereby reducing economic stimulus. "In addition, it cost the American public nearly $300 million dollars just to fix the technical problems with the website." First f all this isn't so much of a faulty economic plan as just an issue with a website. Secondly this is a lie it only cost 121 million dollars. [2] "Mitt Romney created a health plan for the people of Massachusetts which worked very well. In fact many suspect that the Democrats got the idea of Obamacare from Romney's program. However, the difference is that Obamacare is currently failing in Massachusetts and can not get off it's feet." I am so confused about this argument. It is true that Obamacare is based on Mitt Romney's health plan in Massachusetts, but Republicans didn't like it, and Romney later stated he wanted to change the plan. [2] My opponent then goes into a hypothetical-useless. However companies being forced to provide health care does provide benefits that are in no way hypothetical. It can prevent job-lock, someone not leaving a job because they want to keep their health care. [3] This also reduces the amount that the government has to spend each year on those that are uninsured. [4] "Many democrats wish to raise the minimum wage to 15 dollars nearly doubling it." Currently minimum wage increase talk is circling at around $10.10 (a number set by Obama) constantly adjusting for inflation. Raising the minimum wage is of course good as it fights income inequality. [5] You even agree. "In order to get out of this economic struggle that has been plaguing our country since the year 2008 is to get the unemployment levels down by creating more jobs. If families have a source of income then they will have more money to spend which will help the economy grow." Higher wages, of course, mean more money to spend. "Under the Obama administration the 5 deficits so far under it have been the largest ever in US history. This president is spending more money than all 43 previous presidents combined." Actually each year the president has been in office the deficit has shrunk. While the 2009 deficit was the largest of all time, but thus was actually a budget set up by George W. Bush, and approved by Congress 4 months before Obama took the oath of office. [6] "And when they reform the budget they would rather cut back on the military and education and raise taxes rather than cutting off funding to programs that aren't working efficiently which is what Republicans want to do." The way the military budget is spent is the definition of inefficient. [7] It also takes 20% of all tax dollars to make it by a long, long way the biggest military in the world. [8] I am not sure were you get the idea that Democrats want to cut school spending, but it is in fact very inefficient as well. [9] 1. http://obamacarefacts.com... 2. http://www.washingtontimes.com... 3. http://www.nytimes.com... 4. http://www.cnn.com... 5. http://www.businessweek.com... 6. http://www.forbes.com... 7. http://www.nytimes.com... 8. http://www.nbcnews.com... 9. http://www.city-journal.org... http://www.businessinsider.com...