The county of Polk in North Carolina has a population of 18,866. The county is forced to pay over $1 million in Medicare expenses. At "only" $53 a resident, that doesn't sound too awful bad, does it? But the federal government (YOU) and the state chip in an additional $18 million. That means the government is spending OVER $1000 per resident each year for Medicaid.

Presuming just 55% are employed and earning and paying for their own insurance, that's $2,238 for every person who's not employed to pay for their medical care. Government's not giving me one dime for my medical expenses -- why should so much go to just some "special" people?

Worse, the county is being forced to pay that $1 million, whether the people who live there want to or not. That's wrong. It's not quite taxation without representation directly, but it certainly is indirectly -- the citizens have no say in how their tax money is being spent and that's wrong.

North Carolina is the last state in the union that requires counties to pay for a portion of Medicare -- and they are told exactly how much they are required to spend. However, the legislature in Raleigh (run by Democrats) is more interested in spending money on what they want and retaining control than in a fair representative republic.

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