President Obama is Open to Taxing Healthcare Benefits

  I have written about President Obama’s flip-flop in taxing people’s healthcare benefits before but he refuses to take the issue off of the table so I feel that this needs to be written about once again.

  During the presidential campaign there was debate about healthcare reform. John McCain’s had the stupid idea of taxing helathcare benefits that millions of Americans receive to pay for healthcare for those who do not have healthcare. Even candidate Obama thought that this was a stupid idea.

  Here is what was said in one of candidate Obama’s campaign ads:

McCain would make you pay taxes on your health benefits, taxing your health care for the first time ever, raising costs for employers who offer health care so your coverage could be reduced or dropped completely

  And candidate Obama himself said the following:

As a result, many employers will drop their health care plans altogether,” Obama said. “And study after study has shown, that under the McCain plan, at least 20 million Americans will lose the insurance they rely on from their workplace

  But wait, there’s more:

He called McCain’s plan “so radical, so out of touch with what you’re facing, and so out of line with our basic values

   Candidate Obama called John McCain’s plan to tax a person’s healthcare benefits “radical” and out of line with basic Americans values. President Obama doesn’t see it in quite the same light as he is unwilling to remove that option from the table in the healthcare debate. He may be willing to accept John McCain’s “radical” tax now that it is being debated by Democrats.

  Here is what President Obama had to say about the fact that there is talk about using John McCain’s idea of taxing healthcare benefits:

I don’t want to prejudge what they’re doing

  He doesn’t want to prejudge? What the hell is that? Isn’t what he was doing during the campaign prejudging? It was alright to prejudge John McCain’s plan but now that Democrats are proposing the same plan it is not alright to prejudge them?

  Don’t get me wrong, I am perfectly willing to prejudge the plan now and I was perfectly willing to prejudge the plan when it was John McCain’s idea. This plan sucks, pure and simple. Once again hard working, middle class families who are struggling to get by and provide for their families are going to be asked to foot the bill for those who do not provide for their own families.

  As a candidate Obama claimed that his plan was better than McCain’s plan but the fact that he is willing to adopt McCain’s outrageous plan shows that that Obama never had a plan in the first place.

  So many times in the past I have said that Democrats have never seen a tax they didn’t like and I offer Obama’s flip-flop on a tax that he was so critical of during the campaign as evidence.

  I guess it wasn’t the tax on healthcare benefits that Obama found “radical” but rather who was proposing the tax.