Woman Who Weaves

0-30,000 0% 30-60000 10% 60001-90000 25% 90001-120000 33% 120001-183000 50% 183001 + 33% No deductions, none.  I'm not attached to the brackets, I just kind of threw it together, but given that I paid a higher effective rate than Mitt Romney the year he ran for president, I would like to see it be fairer. Updated 10 years later: that wouldn’t work. It would have to be a wealth tax. Lower Mil rate, but on EVERYTHING. 

Sir, having watched your statement on the current proposition I wanted to reach out.  I  live in Virginia, but spent most of my life in Maine.  I voted for a number of Republicans in the past, I voted for Senator Collins in 1996 and again in 2002. The current republican party seems to be in service to the rich, the Russians and the racists.  To value smaller government does require this.  I have probably become a Roosevelt Democrat and will rarely again vote Republican, but there should be a dynamic tension between those who wish to expand government services and oversight and those who wish to constrain it. I'm a supervising physician in a public health clinic and I tell the clinicians and the accountants, that if either group gets everything they want, we're doing something wrong.  I feel the same way about government. If you believe that the goal of government is to serve the people, would you consider reaching out to Collins, Murkowski and a few o...

I describe myself as both pro-choice and pro-life.  Sometimes I have described myself as anti-legislation, but that doesn‘t encompass the fullness of my position.  I am also anti-demonstrations out side of clinics, anti-shaming of women for the choices they make, anti-ignorance, anti-abstinence only education, and anti-forced birth.  I'm also very pro contraception.

This is not intended to be in anyway comprehensive, just quick thoughts: As an American I would like to get Snowden out of Russia.  Both for his sake and ours. I think he needs to do some jail time.  Not hardcore, but some.   For absolutely no logical reason I've decide 3 years, low security is about right. I wish he and Obama had worked out a deal before the election.  I'd rather have him back.

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There's a lot of uproar about the fact that the maximum shift for first year residents (interns) has been extended to 24 hours again.  I was an intern twice (don't ask) and worked first under no restrictions and then under the 80 hour work week.  I had a variety of chief residents who fiddled the schedule in various ways. I did a number of 36 hour shifts, they suck.  Unless you are one of those people who is wired that way, they are complete misery.  I found out later that a lot of my fellow residents used adderall to get through. Twenty-four hours, when you were done at morning sign out, was not that bad.  You had a whole day, often during the workweek, to use as you wanted.  I tended to spend the morning in the hospital finishing up paperwork, left at noon as directed and went home, did laundry and went to bed at 7 or 8  pm and slept through to the next morning.  If the night had been horrible, I would go straight home, shower, put on my jam...

Individual Mandate:  Everyone wants to repeal this, but they either don’t understand how insurance works, or they are willfully obstinate. a.        I am a healthy middle-aged woman.  My health care costs me approximately $1000/year.  I pay $4800 in insurance premiums, I have a high deductible, so I get nothing out of it. b.       That $4800 goes to take care folks with cancer, folks who had car accidents, type I diabetics who need kidney transplants, etc. c.        I pay that $4800 in case I ever get cancer, have a car accident, etc. d.       If folks like me opt out, there’s not enough money to take care of the sick folks. 2.        I have a Health Savings Account (HSA): a.        I was able to fully fund it for the past two years so it has the full amount of my deductible in it.  b. ...

I called my Congressman's office today, and came home to find he'd voted for HR7. So I began this email to the staffer I talked to. I'm not sending it because I work for the state, and I like eating. But I am so tired of people who make life harder. They're never happy people. The text of the email so far: It was nice to talk to you today and I suspect that for the next couple of years, we're going to get to know each other. HR7 is the kind of dumbass pander to the nasties I expect from my representative. You know what I hate most about you narrow-minded pro-birth proto-fascists?  That if your sixteen year old was pregnant , you'd drive her to the clinic.  Actually, she wouldn't have to go to the clinic, your private OB/GYN would do a D&C for "dysfunctional bleeding". I also hate that you make me support abortion, which I fundamentally don't like. I believe that life begins at first cell division. But I also believe that there...