Bush's Veto: A road block on the path to Socialism

One mile on the road to socialism is the expansion of SCHIP.

In the past ten years SCHIP has gone from a program intended only to insure struggling families to a permanent middle class entitlement program. At this speed, ten more years of the program's expansionwould result in completely socialized medicine.

But isn't that what the Democrats want? Bigger government? Complete control over the healthcare industry? Complete control over ourpersonal healthcare decisions? Though they may not admit this inwords, their actions betray their true intentions.

The expansion ofSCHIP would not only target poor and uninsured families, but would encourage families already receiving private health insurance totransfer over to state-sponsored healthcare.

The effect: a culture of dependency, a heavier burden on tax payers,and a large amount of power shifting from the free market to the hands of the government.The bulk of funding for the SCHIP expansion is expected to come froman increased cigarette tax. Not only is this illogical because mostly low-income people smoke cigarettes, which will essentially result in the poor funding the healthcare of the middle class, but it is also aslippery slope.

What happens when the tobacco funding dries up? You can bet that the big-government politicians will come after all tax payers, which includes you, to fill the vacuum. The expansion's supporters in Congress are fully aware of this but they are hoping that American's lack of sympathy towards smokers will distract them from reality.

People need to stop listening to the demagoguery and look at thefacts. The Democrats are attempting to spin the SCHIP debate into abattle between those-who-care-about-children versusthose-who-don't-care-about-children. These tactics are nothing new for the Left, who think they can advance their socialist agenda so long asit is in the name of the children.

Even big-government Bush understood this and took a stand. President Bush's veto has put up a major road block on the path to socialism.

If the Democrats truly want to help modest-incomefamilies who are struggling to make ends meet, and not just put morepower in the hands of the government, then they should consider a much more market friendly and choice friendly solution: tax credits.