Tales: Part II, responce to comments.

Responce to comments by Jas P. look for Spulgenine (his blog) at Google.com

An excerpt:

Jas P. said...
"Thought-provoking stuff. You're right about the use of analogy to describe problems and suggest solutions--it communicates in a way nothing else does, and engages the imagination. Can anyone deny that our failure to figure out health care is a failure of imagination?And a failure of political will, of course. It's going to take a real dismantling of conventional wisdom and cliches to make a dent in this problem. Someone's going to have to frame the debate in a new way that can compete, sound-bite-wise, on the 24-hour news cycle. All the GOP has to do is trot out the phrase "socialized medicine" and it galvanizes their reactionary base.You're looking at this in a much bigger way than what I've just described. The idea that we could get traction on a global scale when we can't do it domestically seems crazy, but maybe crazy is just what the doctor ordered. "
April 8, 2007 9:23 AM


Dear Jim, my first response to the idea of a human-oriented health care head space, shares with you a similar focus on Individual empowerment, Humanitarian concern and moving the issue to a very different arena of public attention. A new dialogue might begin like this. Here is a question, (what would the response be?) if taxpayers were asked what percentage of total personal tax they would target to a national health care system if this in no way changed the amount they paid. After this first question they then were asked , if you could target any amount up to 50% , how much would you allocate?

Answers to these inquires might suggest two things: the general overall disposition toward health care as a community rather than an ideological issue, and then indicate the value individual rights should have outside the restraining control of majority politics.

Follow this with a third question, if poverty definitions were properly raised to account for cost of living variances and a wider share of specific, personal (quality of life) standard deductions: how many would agree to a flat 20% tax rate(of which 50% could be personally ear-marked), how many would think this to be a good move in general policy?

Answers may suggest (as I believe) that our representative democracy needs the reform and updating now becoming possible at "Information Age" levels. It would represent a balance factor, setting a control and limits on any agenda of current majority interest, and lessen polarization of our social politic imposed by the varying ideals of social altruism which exist in our rights community as a whole. In addition to suggested (purse string) representational changes if individuals could target 100% of contributions above post-tax income to their legally accepted legislative programs, interest collectives at any income level could fully represent themselves on a voluntary basis with real fiscal limits. Give and take on all social fronts, a compromise of free and fair, could and should be an issue of individual cooperation and empowerment within our community sphere.

In as much as Darwinian concepts cannot fully explain social altruism's role in the emergence of a human specie dominated environment, and cannot begin to explain the existence of non-survival related cultural elements; few social scientists would deny that by hook or crook "Altruism" represents the best hope for such continuation. "Winner take all" morality is not sufficient to explain the existence of our rights community. We should no longer accept such an ethic as the reward for imposed political emminance in the way our government functions.

I can't help but chuckling when I think of what "Free Tax Assistance" could be in the future when it becomes a matter of mobilizing political resources. We could look on April 15th as expectently as Nov. 7th, when we hear the general proclaimation " The people have spoken, taken us down a notch, reminding us that though we've been elected for assumed capabilities we are and remain public servants.".

I need to continue at a later time on the intricacies of 'universal health care' if and when I find the time (sorry to proactively digress) after I guide the IRS later this week!

Scotland
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