This will affect everyone on dialysis, especially the poor on dialysis. It is a goal of myself and I am sure everyone on this board for there to be enough money for every other day dialysis or for dialysis to occur 6-7 days per week, if needed by the dialysis consumer. Employment affects the dialysis consumer. For example, when the economy has fewer workers or employees in the economy, this reduces the amount of tax revenue collected by the government. To greatly increase tax revenue, tax rates need to be low to enable hiring more workers, which will increase the tax revenue paid to Medicare, so we will be able to accomplish our goal of more dialysis, more dialysis is better. With low tax rates, the wealthy will pay more of the total total tax bill, dropping middle, working, and working poor taxpayers from the tax paying rolls. I care about how the dialysis consumer is treated, I want a better life for everyone on this board. The politician is concerned about re-election, I am concerned about the dialysis consumer. For me to hear these politiicans tell me that there is not enough money for more dialysis, is a load of crock. Creating more weatlh by introducing low tax rates or a very low rate flat tax, there will be more than enough money for more dialysis, and more compassion for the very sick.
When you add it all up, it costs $74,000 to put $44,000 in Sally’s pocket and to give her $12,000 in benefits.
By MICHAEL P. FLEISCHER
With unemployment just under 10% and companies sitting on their cash, you would think that sooner or later job growth would take off. I think it’s going to be later—much later. Here’s why.
Meet Sally (not her real name; details changed to preserve privacy). Sally is a terrific employee, and she happens to be the median person in terms of base pay among the 83 people at my little company in New Jersey, where we provide audio systems for use in educational, commercial and industrial settings. She’s been with us for over 15 years. She’s a high school graduate with some specialized training. She makes $59,000 a year—on paper. In reality, she makes only $44,000 a year because $15,000 is taken from her thanks to various deductions and taxes, all of which form the steep, sad slope between gross and net pay.