One of the few times the Obamas spoke the truth was during the campaign was when he said he was going to redistribute the wealth and she said she was going to take care of “her people”. The mainstream news media glossed that over and the idiots attending those meetings must have been deaf because they applauded and cheered wildly.
From what I’ve read this health care bill hits very hard in the $80K-120K income bracket. That’s the upper middle class, which tends to be fairly conservative and votes more for Republicans than for Democrats. So this health care bill doesn’t do what Baucus thinks it does. It takes income from the upper middle class and gives it to lower middle class families and the poor, which are big democrat constiutiencies. There’s no justification for that whatsoever. Families earning $100K cannot afford to spend $14K on a gold-plated health insurance policy which redistributes a good chunk of that $14K annual premium to poor people. That kind of over-taxation is very damaging to the upper middle class and it will never be politically acceptable to the vast majority of Americans. The liberals are going to be voted out in large numbers in November and then the repeal of this monstrous tax increase will begin.