Taxes are for the little people

Forget you pay your taxes? You could be Treasury Secretary! But only if you're a Democratic (not Republican) big wig. Or you could be a Senator. Or a dozen other examples.

-Al Franken tax-cheat
-Charlie Rangle tax-cheat
-Caroline Kennedy tax-cheat
-Timothy Geitner tax-cheat
-Tom Daschle tax-cheat

Taxes are for the little people. Healthcare? Not so much, once the Fed.Gov controls it:

Democratic blogger Ezra Klein appears to be positioning Dem health care reforms as a way to cut costs, on the grounds that a reformed system will be able to make "hard choices" and "rational" coverage decisions, by which Klein seems to mean "not providing" treatments that are unproven or too expensive--when "a person's life, or health, is not worth the price."

But I'm sure that there won't be a two-tier healthcare system, one for the politically well-connected nomenklatura, and one for the rest of us. I mean, that's crazy talk.

Besides, Al Franken deserves better healthcare than my kids do. Or something.

UPDATE 17 April 2009 23:29: To Old To Work, Too Young To Retire says it better, and in fewer words:

National Health Care, the efficiency of FEMA, the compassion of the IRS.