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Baucus Healthcare Plan Hits Unions with big insurance taxes; "It's dead, Jim."
Fox News Channel
| 9/16/09
Posted on 09/16/2009 6:08:33 AM PDT by pabianice
Obamacare update: Plan from Sen. Baucus includes hefty taxes on unions' gold-plated healthcare plans. Dem senators saying that's unacceptable. Lefties screaming that unions must get special treatment; i.e. no taxes on their healthcare. Looks like the Baucus plan is already near death.
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posted on
09/16/2009 6:08:34 AM PDT
by
pabianice
To: pabianice
Poor, silly Max, he thought the bill was about providing Health Coverage.
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posted on
09/16/2009 6:11:19 AM PDT
by
Steamburg
( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
To: pabianice
House plan dead,Senate plan dead,this is racism straight up!
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posted on
09/16/2009 6:11:29 AM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
To: pabianice
This patient is bleeding from severed appendiges and Baucus is applying ice to a black eye.
Still, Keep it up. Eventually they will use the nuclear option.
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posted on
09/16/2009 6:11:44 AM PDT
by
Tenacious 1
(Government For the People - an obviously concealed oxymoron)
To: pabianice
To: pabianice
Baucus is free to screw America as he is not up for re-electino for ~ 5 years. Thanks MT. (Unless Baucus is so smart as to fill his plan with poison pills to not let it get passed)
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posted on
09/16/2009 6:12:45 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: Dr. Ursus
It is so racist ~ and just overflowing with Western Imperialism and the suppression of minorities.
Oh, the humanity.
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posted on
09/16/2009 6:12:45 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: pabianice
Hey, ya'll! That's what I'm talkin' about!
To: pabianice
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posted on
09/16/2009 6:13:27 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(Socialist Conservatives: "'Big government is free because tax cuts pay for it'")
To: pabianice
Republican’s should back most of this plan just to stick it down Obama and the union’s throats.
If they keep crying for healthcare, then let’s make everyone of their constituents pay for healthcare!
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posted on
09/16/2009 6:14:20 AM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: pabianice
Dem senators saying that's unacceptableHave read not a word of his proposal, the above statement alone makes me like it.
11
posted on
09/16/2009 6:14:29 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: pabianice
Even the Maine RINOs have bailed.
Get me some popcorn.
12
posted on
09/16/2009 6:16:55 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: Tenacious 1
Better put some ice on that, Max.
To: pabianice
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posted on
09/16/2009 6:18:47 AM PDT
by
bray
(He's a Divider not a Uniter)
To: pabianice
What will Bambi do if there’s no plan before his big Sunday Healthcram Tour.
To: Tenacious 1
Best result would be for them to try the nuclear option, with zero GOP support, and have it fizzle a few Rats short of 50% on both sides. With the Maine RINOs on our side the GOP part looks promising and that Maine weather vane is one of many signs of hope for a Rat stalemate.
To: pabianice
Doesn’t this plan include fines of up to $3800 for families that aren’t insured? This has to be one of the most abusive lines of law ever written into a bill.
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posted on
09/16/2009 6:34:21 AM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: jersey117
Whats funny is...the unions bitching about “no new taxes”
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posted on
09/16/2009 6:40:20 AM PDT
by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: pabianice
Lefties screaming that unions must get special treatment; i.e. no taxes on their healthcare. If unions are given special treatment, what would keep employees at every workplace from forming "unions" for the sole purpose of passing tax free healthcare benefits from the employer to the employees? Sure, it would be dangerous because having any union is one step closer to belonging to the AFL-CIO, but most people would be willing to accept a sham union in order to pass through a few thousand dollars of tax savings.
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posted on
09/16/2009 6:54:16 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
("I can run wild for six months ...after that, I have no expectation of success" - Admiral Obama-moto)
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