Posted by Paul at May 12th, 2009

It’s funny how “conservatives” take the most money from taxpayers. Bush had his history making transfer of wealth from the public sector (everyone) to an elite section of the private sector (less than 1%). Now we have Rick Scott leading the charge against Obama’s healthcare reforms in the media. Scott is the former CEO of a huge for profit hospital that defrauded the government for millions in phony Medicare claims. He resigned in disgrace (if you call a ten million dollar golden parachute disgraceful), and his company paid 1.7 billion dollars in fines. Paying the government instead of stealing from it must have irked him.

But it’s all about which way the money flows. If taxpayers get healthcare or other benefits, that’s bad for people like Scott. His type can’t thrive without tax dollars for corporate subsidies, needless war contracting, or giant Medicare scams. It’s no problem for Scott to claim he sides with taxpayers; he knows the government will get paid one way or another. And so, in turn, will he.