Let me splain it to you, Rush. A wage benefit is the sneaky way the libs intend to get national health care, using the corporations as proxies, and tax the workers for it. Company-provided health care will be considered a salary extension, a taxable benefit as part of the wages. In other words, another sneaky Democrat tax increase.
Whenever a company provides you with a benefit, health, perks, whatever, they can, and alot of times, do, dock it from your salary as an eqivalent. If they say that rubbing yours hand on the special wall makes you healthier, they can give you a lower salary because they are giving you a wage benefit.
Corporations have been using it for years, to keep salaries down or to give pay cuts, by claiming that anything from free coffee in the morning, to letting you make 1 5 minuit personal phone call, to giving you a stress ball, is a wage benefit, and they factor that in, when deciding to give a raise, or in what salaries are for positions.
Unions hate the term, they know what this is, and despise it, before this is over, I'm sure he'll change the term to somthing else, other wise he's going to have real problems.