8 Quotes by Leonard Burman

  • Author Leonard Burman
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    Will Rogers once said, 'If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.' Medicare is in a deep hole. Maybe it is time to stop digging.

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    The subsidies encourage people to get insurance at work, stifling the individual non-group market, and they encourage employers to provide overly generous insurance since the cost is subsidized. What's more, the subsidy is upside down - aiding mostly the high-income families that would probably purchase insurance under any scenario, and providing little aid to those of modest means.

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    This is a problem that should have been dealt with when we had the money, and it wasn't.

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    There was a proposal in Congress that would raise a point of order against any tax proposal that would not deal with the AMT. It died.

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