Posted on 01/11/2010 8:10:50 PM PST by Ron C.
WASHINGTON - President Obama told labor leaders in a tense two-hour closed door tussle over whether to tax health care benefits that he backed the tax, which labor leaders vehemently oppose, but also supports efforts "to protect working men and women."
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Wait until the union members find out that their “leaders” have traded in their Cadillac for and old, used Yugo.
If Brown wins in Massachusetts, fire up the popcorn machine and watch the congressional rats dive off the USS Obama.
The disconnect between skilled laborers at the bottom and union leadership at the top is quite drastic.
~grim grin~ - wait until almost all working professionals with a company provided health care plan find out they have to pay a whopping tax on top of what their company pays for their medical plan. That tax will be enough to cause riots and hoards of angry citizens marching on the White House with fire brands - just guessing...
You asked for him. You supported him. You voted for him. Shut yer pie hole.
“I won, get over it.”
I've gotta say though - I absolutely love it... that the commie-congress has finally raised the intense ire of the union folk. LOL
The unions are finally figuring out that the Rats want to make EVERYONE poor.
Most people will not even see it, because it will be buried within their paystub. It will just be buried among the Federal witholding taxes.
I call Bullshit on the complaints of the Union thugs!
They are putting on a show for their rank and file and they are HAPPY to see this catastrophe of health care take place!
Yes, they will have some sort of exception just for them. They’ll get the “full Nelson”, so to speak. :-)
They will exempt labor union plans.
I’d certainly notice if the take-home pay was less...
I always thought that all withholdings should be done AFTER you get paid. There should be a bill arrive in your mail, monthly, with the amount you owe for fed income, state income, SS disability insurance etc. Nothing like seeing the money melt out of your checking account in order to drive home how much you make. Better yet, we should all have to pay our yearly income taxes before we could start bringing money home. For instance, we work about 4 months our of the year(longer if you count gas taxes and other incidental taxes)before we start earning money for ourselves. If we had to go the first 4 months of every year without a pay check, people would soon rebel against the exorbitant taxes we have to pay.
All the D-majority Congress has to do is tuck a waiver somewhere into the ping pong bill.
It is the way of the malignant narcissist.
The amazing thing is that none saw (or will see) it coming.
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i agree. obama is scared of confrontation, and i find it difficult to believe he would willingly meet with them if he had a huge turd to sell them.
Just wait until they define what “Cadillac” is. If you need to go to the doctor, you’re better off getting a tan, putting on your paint-spattered home project clothes, not showering that day, and walking in to the local hospital telling them that you’re Jose Jimenez and you know very little English. “No green card.”
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