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Health Care Policy: A Historic Middle Class Tax Hike
Political Castaway ^ | 3/3/2009 | Selkirk

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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: budget; democrat; democrats; healthcare; impeachobama; obama; taxdollars; taxes; youtaxdollars

1 posted on 03/03/2009 4:00:19 PM PST by Selkirk
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To: Selkirk

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.


2 posted on 03/03/2009 4:18:17 PM PST by conservative cat (America, you have been PWNED!)
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