Posted on 03/03/2009 4:00:18 PM PST by Selkirk
President Obama issued his budget proposal last week, and I haven't yet been able to clean up all the coffee that I spit all over my keyboard when I saw that he presented it as a model of fiscal responsibility. Never in my life have I ever seen responsibility defined to include tripling an annual budget deficit. But I digress.
One thing that jumps out of the budget are the numbers associated with the President's Health Care plan. Over the ten year period, the President identifies over $600 billion in revenue to fund his health care priorities by repealing the availability of pre-tax dollars for health care, effectively taxing employer-provided health care.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.politicalcastaway.com ...
I knew people who were scared of McCain (rightfully) for his proposal at the time. Grab some popcorn, people are going to be p*ssed.
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