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This $110 billion program -- which started out 26 years ago with a budget of $5 billion -- was designed to provide decent care for the elderly. But the program gives the same benefits to those who are well-off as to the elderly poor. Though the elderly do pay some of the costs -- and staunchly resist bearing more of them -- nearly 90% of Medicare funds come from payroll taxes on workers. As a result, the burden falls partly on laborers who have no health insurance of their own and may have trouble making ends meet...
...certainly don't share them. Before we would deem a private behavior "bad," we would want to see evidence that this behavior significantly harms either society at large or the persons that chose to partake in it. Homosexuality doesn't. We don't believe homosexuals are any less well-off as a result of their sexual orientation...
...Cambridge is the wealthiest city out of 350 cities and towns in the Commonwealth," said candidate Albert B. Fantini, who has served on the committee for 10 years and is currently the senior member. "I don't anticipate wholesale budget cuts because out city is well-off. I think times will be tough, but we can manage reasonably well...
...company cars and mobile telephones; private car phones provided by employers will be taxed $356 a year. These measures hardly add up to a change in direction, but they do mark a shift in the tone of policy toward more generosity to the underprivileged and less to the well...
...Cambridge is riddled with large numbers of deteriorated buildings. All agree that the buildings need money for major repairs. All agree that well-off Rent Control tenants can afford to pay more. The system needs change. But how? Raise the rents? Hell no. (Enter the Big Lie.) Landlords are insatiably greedy despots. They'll pocket the rent money and let their buildings fall apart. Cambridge's deteriorated buildings prove...