My prospective opponent, the Honorable Tom Perriello, has stated on his website that,

“Every American deserves access to quality, affordable health care. Achieving this goal will require a comprehensive approach to healthcare reform aimed at addressing the needs of the 46 million uninsured Americans, strengthening the Medicare system, providing health insurance to our low-income children, funding cutting-edge research into cures for diseases, and giving patients a meaningful choice when interacting with healthcare providers and insurers.”

Anyone who reads this can only assume that the good and able gentleman from Ivy stands firmly with President Obama’s hybrid plan for comprehensive health care in the United States.

President Obama has taken great pains to promise that there will be no change to anyone who has employer-provided healthcare. They will not be forced to leave that plan. Just yesterday, the President told the American Medical Association, “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what. My view is that health care reform should be guided by a simple principle: Fix what’s broken and build on what works. And that’s what we intend to do.”

To reiterate, the White House has just promised that no one who wants to continue their coverage will lose it. Unfortunately, Washington is again out of touch with reality. I wasn’t working on my Yale or Harvard law degrees, but in the factories that I’ve worked in, they taught the most important case law of all ~ the law of unintended consequences.

Like Newton’s famous law, in politics and economics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The progressives who have championed this “reform” can intently and honestly promise that no one in government will take away the employer option. They cannot and will not promise that the employer won’t.

If an employer sees that his taxes are increasing as a “public option” becomes available, how long will it be before he drops the private option for his employees, knowing that they will be picked up by the state? It makes good business sense. Corporations are not in business to provide jobs in community, after all, they are for-profit ventures, answerable to board members and shareholders when those profits are in danger.

Surely, as employers drop their private insurance plans, and thus reinforce their bottom line, the number of people on public insurance will rise until eventually everyone is on the program and paying taxes to support it.

I have spoken at length about not holding wise businessmen and women accountable for being wise. From the steel mills in Pittsburgh to the textile factories in Danville and out to the technology production in the valleys of California, America has spent years watching industry leave this country because it was smarter to produce outside this country.

Confiscatory taxation has left many working people like you wondering how to feed their families. This health care proposal, and the taxation that will come with it, will take away even more of the few factories that the middle class has left to earn a living in.

An estimated 200 million people are covered and happy with their insurance, which will be taken away eventually, by the immutable laws of economics, under the Obama plan that Perriello supports.

The only solution is to take that decision off the boardroom table by ridding employers of the taxation dilemma in the first place with the institution of the FairTax. If a businessman has to limit healthcare benefits to his hires because he has to pay taxes, he will. With the FairTax, legislation that I support and will work hard to institute, no choice would be necessary.

It is time for the good citizens of Southside and Central Virginia to vote for their own self interests and prevent the public option from passing. My plan for taxation does that and places the choice of common sense practices in the hands of the people who should make those decisions, workers and their employers.

On election day, check yes for freedom from taxation, yes for the liberty to choose your healthcare option, and yes for me, Bradley Rees, so I can go to work for you!