“The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.”
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Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.