Stick it to them!
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
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Every state has budget problems. Every state is struggling how to raise taxes without calling them taxes. Wisconsin State Senator Dale Schultz (R) has released the following opinion on one such tax …
The state budget pending in Madison contains a special hit on sick and elderly people living in nursing homes across Wisconsin.  The monthly tax on every nursing home bed would double from $75 to $150 per monthstarting July 1, 2009 if legislators adopt the plan introduced by Governor Doyle. The bed tax would rise further, to $170 per month, in July 2010.
The bed tax enables the state to capture federal dollars for state medical assistance costs. That might make sense if all the additional federal funds supported nursing home residents, but that’s not the plan.
The plan is to return only 41 cents of every additional federal dollar to nursing homes and use the other 59 cents for other state spending…
Sticking it to our most sick and elderly community members, especially those paying for their care from their own savings, is hardly fair public policy, but legislators crafting the budget in Madison apparently hope your attention will be diverted to other issues.
In other words, stick it to those who worked hard and saved so they would never be burden on the government and now have no voice.
Good Plan!
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May 28th, 2009 at 7:18 am
That’s what Iowa’s governor just signed… what’s referred to as the Granny Tax. Although it applies only to private nursing homes – not state facilities.
Because it’s all about how much money and control can be confiscated from us in the cheap seats.