From The Atlantic Wire, By Max Fisher
As health care costs balloon, swelling the budget and the deficit, elderly Americans are consistently the biggest consumers. This isn’t their fault. They simply require more–and more expensive–treatments. These treatments are billed to Medicare, which hands the bill to the federal government, which needs tax revenue to pay it.
Here’s the problem: those same elderly Americans are outraged at the rising tax rate and growing federal spending. Seniors are using their tremendous political weight to push a conflicting agenda, expanding services to seniors while reducing the taxes need to pay for them.
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