That's presidential extortion, and it's no way to run a country. The president should just do what's right for the country and our economy with no strings or conditions attached. A tax-rate reduction is right for the country, and Clinton is wrong to attach Medicare strings to its enactment. Even though he may be sincerely of the opinion that his prescription drug proposal also is right for the country, he is distinctly in the minority. It is remarkable that one of the president's final acts is to keep the budget surplus in Washington, D.C., rather than send it back to the taxpayers who were overcharged to create it in the first place.
Taxes are at an all-time high.
Our tax code is a disgrace. Medicare is going broke and in desperate need of reform. He holds a tax cut hostage to being allowed to expand a Medicare program already teetering on the brink of insolvency. The bottom line is that president Clinton's proposed expansion of an already antiquated Medicare program is guaranteed to expand price controls and hasten the day when prescription drugs are rationed to seniors by the government. Ever since voters repudiated the president's effort to nationalize America's health-care system in one fell swoop back in 1994, he has been trying to accomplish the same end piecemeal.