A flat tax, or fair tax, or national sales tax won't address the issue of which organizations should be tax exempt.

True, assuming you live to normal life expectancy.

Interest rates? You have your retirement in a savings account or CD? Good luck with that.

I'm "forced" to pay for cancer treatments for smokers and diabetes/heart attack/etc treatments for fatties, how is this any different? You also realize that one non-complicated pregnancy costs more than a lifetime of birth control, don't you? Strictly from a cost standpoint, the birth control is the better option.

The argument wasn't about free birth control, it was whether insurance companies should include it in their coverage. You may or may not agree, I can see both sides, but let's at least be clear about what the context is. Also, most birth control perscriptions are written to married women to aid in family planning, not ...more

It works basically the same was as most private pensions. The longer you wait, the higher the monthly benefit. It's based on live expectancies and the amount a person will draw, should they live to the average age. You start at 62 and live to 86, you get so much per month, you wait until your 66 and live to 86, your be...more

The problem with Mitt was which Mitt?

OK, just so we're clear, this is not a cut in benefits, it is a cut to the increase in benefits. There will still be an increase, just not as much.

People laughed at the first attempts at building automobiles and said they would never replace the horse.