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Governor Peter Shumlin, Vermont, announced that he’s given up on his dream of creating a single payer health care system for now, saying, “In my judgment, now is not the right time to ask our legislature to take the step of passing a financing plan for Green Mountain Care.”
Taxes to support the single payer dream included an 11.5 percent payroll tax and an additional income tax of up to 9.5 percent but real world consequences, a blunted economy and job losses, made the governors dream too risky, at least “for now”.
Obviously the salient lesson hasn’t been learned.
Vermont was “Gruberized” too. Other states with contracts with Grubber are looking to cancel them after his multiple video performances on his Obumblecare shenanigans were found.
Grubber was chosen for his Lie of the Year – a title that Obumble won last year for “you can keep your doctor,” but it was a close race . . . . .
Every President makes mistakes and has problems. This administration piles deceit upon deceit. In terms of working against the people it’s the administration that just keeps on giving.
Off topic.
More Democrats caught with their hands in the “cookie jar.”
Two Pa. Legislators Indicted for Voter ID Bribes in a Case the State AG Refused to Prosecute:
“A grand jury convened by Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams has indicted two Democratic state legislators for accepting bribes in exchange for voting against a voter ID bill, among other legislative actions.
The grand jury findings also represent a withering rejection of the unjustifiable behavior of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who shut down the three-year investigation that caught state Democratic legislators on video and audio tapes taking bribes. Williams stepped in and successfully prosecuted the case.
As the grand jury reported, it had 26 recordings featuring Rep. Ronald G. Waters, who accepted nine cash payments from a confidential informant totaling $8,750. The grand jury had 24 recordings of Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown accepting five cash payments totaling $4,000. Waters agreed to vote against Pennsylvania House Bill 934, a voter ID bill, in exchange for $2,000. Brown also agreed to vote against House Bill 934 for the same amount.
Brown was so eager to vote the way she had been paid by the informant that she offered to “get up and speak” on the floor of the Pennsylvania House in opposition to the bill. Both “representatives testified before this Grand Jury and admitted their criminal conduct.”
Waters, who currently serves as the Secretary for the House Democratic Caucus, was “ecstatic” about receiving the cash bribes and told the CI “I’m going to tell you the f*****g truth. You have money, then you can get something done.” Brown told the grand jury she took the money because of financial pressures, including being told that if she didn’t raise $100,000 for her next election, “the Democratic Party would run someone against her in a primary.”
Because Waters, Brown and other legislators involved in the bribery scheme are black, Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane shut down the investigation in March. She claimed that the investigation was “poorly conceived, badly managed and tainted by racism…[and] had targeted African-Americans.” Williams, who also is black, was particularly incensed by this claim, saying that he was “disgusted that the attorney general would bring racism into this case. It’s like pouring gasoline on a fire for no reason, no reason at all.”
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