President Obama May Tax Health-care Benefits
During the campaign, when the issue of health-care came up, President Obama claimed that John McCain was going to tax health-care benefits. President Obama vigorously opposed that idea calling it “the largest middle-class tax increase in history.” He claimed that he had a plan and it was better that John McCain’s plan.
Meet the new plan, same as the old plan. In what this article calls a shift, I prefer flip-flop, President Obama is now willing to support taxing health-care benefits. Evidently it is Obama who wanted to be the one who would create the largest middle class tax hike in history.
The Obama administration is signaling to Congress that the president could support taxing some employee health benefits
The president has said that he will not propose the idea that would tax our health-care benefits, but if congress approved it and the bill made it to his desk he would sign it.
several advisers say that while he will not propose changing the tax-free status of employee health benefits, neither will he oppose it if Congress does so.
He is trying to have it both ways again, this man is incredible. He won’t propose the idea but he will support it. Isn’t the fact that he has now openly amitted that he won’t oppose the legislation a backdoor proposal of the legislation? By telling congress he won’t oppose it he is opening the door for congress to walk in and tax us on our health-care. His now public willingness to sign this type of legislation is a signal to congress that the idea should be proposed, and now it will be. He will still be able to claim it wasn’t his idea, but he will be the man that signs it.
Republicans seem open to this idea, (after all it was John McCain’s stupid idea), while the house Democrats may pose a problem for this plan. We can only hope that there is enough opposition to this plan if it is introduced or once again the middle class will take it on the chin.
Here we have a case of the president promising two things during the campaign: one; he would only raise taxes on people making over $250,000, and two; that 95% of Americans would get a tax break. He will be breaking both of those promises if he signs the taxation of health-care benefits into law.
President Obama will not only be breaking his promises to the middle class, he will own what he himself called the largest tax hike on the middle class in history. Congratulations will be in order for the president, he will be making history again, this time for the largest screwing of the middle class in history.
Candidate Obama and President Obama are two different people.
America's Watchtower 
What’s the return policy on presidents?
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You break it, you own it.
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But I told them not to touch it! Innocent victim here!
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Of course he has to tax people who choose to pay for private health insurance. So he can pay for the “free” healthcare for the unfortunate masses and the illegals.
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Somebody has to pay for “free” health-care, it might as well be we who work for a living, right? We are such suckers for trying to make an honset living.
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No, S. No matter how much of a “sucker” we may feel like, it is still the right thing to do. We cannot stoop. Even though the gubment is chasing your wallet like a hungry pacman, you can still say and know that you worked hard for that money. We may not have half the money we worked for, but at least we can have some satisfaction that it is in fact an honest living. Remember all a man really has is his word.
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I know it is the right thing to do and I know that you are right but sometimes I just get tired of being played for a foll because I try to do things the right way.
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