Posted on 04/25/2011 10:07:13 AM PDT by 92nina
...By requiring the reporting of health benefits on W-2 forms it becomes incredibly easy to tax the benefits as well as income. This new tax could include everyone, since it won’t technically be considered as part of their “income.” Another possibility is that the reporting of health benefits on W-2s may be used as a pretext to claim that many more families actually make above $250,000 per year, opening up the door to this potential tax as well as many other taxes “on the wealthy”. No matter how this new provision is applied, the only logical conclusions lead to tax increases (most likely ones that break Obama’s pledge). This clear set-up for a tax increase should not be ignored, especially given that Obamacare has already included a tax on other healthcare plans.
This President has gone through much more trouble than this to justify and implement higher taxes. The employer reporting of health benefits creates an all new tax hike temptation as the ideal low hanging fruit of easy potential tax increases. Considering the history of Obama’s dubious ploys to raise taxes and his disregard for his campaign promise, current rhetoric combined with this easy set-up should raise a red flag for every taxpayer.
Read more: http://www.atr.org/obamacare-contain-future-health-benefits-taxes-a6092#ixzz1KYQHqyUu
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