As Sarah Brodsky pointed out in an earlier post, Families USA and other leftie groups are trying hard to convince people that health care is “unaffordable” for anyone who has expenditures in a year that exceed 10 percent of his income. Unless household income is above the 90^th percentile, this basically means that when the orthodontist sends his bill, parents go directly to the poorhouse.

Well, if 10 percent is the affordability criterion, where is the intense concern about unaffordable transportation? As the table shows, it ate up 17.6 percent of after-tax 2006 consumer expenditures. Or unaffordable housing, which was 33.8 percent of expenditures? And, of course, there’s unaffordable food, which gobbled up 12.6 percent of expenditures. Not to mention entertainment, to which hard pressed American households directed 4.9 percent of expenditures.

Of course none of this says anything about what may be the largest of all family budget problems--taxes. The average American family pays about 33% of its income in taxes.

Paraphrasing Sarah, where is the Families USA campaign to lift that burden?