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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: EE statements (was: Re: Attention Skiers Boycotting Colorado)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.031056.9822@spdcc.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 03:10:56 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.002311.28876@lclark.edu> <1hthe3INNa5s@hp-col.col.hp.com>
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- smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
- >snodgras@lclark.edu (Bil Snodgrass) writes:
- >> My insurance premium is higher because I have to pay heterosexuals
- >> to have children. So are the tax payers.
-
- >Would you feel better if people stopped having children? Or if
- >insurance didn't cover dependants? Or if there was legislation
- >that required a certain level of financial wealth before someone
- >can have kids? ie; what are you offering as a better way, or
- >are you just pissing in the wind?
-
- No, just pay N times the amount for a single person.
-
- Duh.
-
- As it is you get N times minus a special
- heterosexual privelege for being married, and then M more
- discounts for each child you have under the "special heterosexual
- family unit perk". Actually I think that even gay people get
- the one for kids, since they can just make the company assume
- their unmarried heterosexual with kid (since we all know
- that no homosexuals can have FAMILIES --- don't forget to hide
- your copy of Heather has Two Mommies now before the insurance
- companiers find it and start a witch hunt!)...
-
- Meanwhile, I am paying about 20% of my ANNUAL take home
- pay in health insurance that I can't use because I can't afford
- the co-payment (it doens't cover much either --- I think amputations
- are covered), while my partner can't put me under his insurance
- EVEN AT THE SAME RATE FOR HIM (i.e. *no* deduction whatsoever),
- because we're not heterosexual and in doing so we'd be getting
- a "special privilege":.
-
- PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE tell me you "get this".
- Lie to me if you have to.
-
- I can believe you're this dense, though I'm expecting to
- find some great "question" replying to this somehow rationalizing
- the inequality towards the support of "heterosexual families"...
-