Barack Obama told Senators this week that he is willing to tax health benefits (Seattle)
I screamed “OH MY GOD!!!!” Do campaigns matter anymore? Watch this Obama campaign ad where he absolutely attacks McCain for the same idea. (video)
Obama’s ad says “Here’s what he’s not telling you” when it reveals the plan to tax health benefits. I just bet America didn’t know the “he” was Obama himself.
Obama’s “Change we can believe in” is quickly becoming “change from everything I said last year.”
Last year, Obama comes out strong against any plan to tax health care, and now he’s ready to launch the health care tax himself?
Is anyone in the coddle-media going to call him on all these reversals and false advertising? If Obama’s campaign was a private business, the FTC would probably shut him down.
If a Republican broke a campaign promise like this, it would be front page, every newspaper, and talking heads on CNN and MSNBC would be blasting him, and rightly so.
But Obambi gets his daily media coddle as he jets around the world handing out his new business cards that say “Leader of the free world and owner of GM.”
The right wants to jeer him. The left wants to censor him. Moderates usually want both. Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, if only to prove that all actors aren’t liberals. Kirwin’s columns stir up debate and hit the political scene with no punches pulled. 
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truly sad because it was also one of the major reasons (among many) I disliked McCain. I go out of my to make sure I give good health benefits to my employees and now they may get punished for it.
It must be nice to be a leftist — you’re never held responsible for anything you say or do.
You would think employers should be rewarded for providing good health plans to their employees. After all, it reduces the number of uninsured and that was supposed to be a good thing!
If they’re going to tax that money, where is the incentive to hire people to research and run their health program? It would be cheaper to cut the health insurance, not hire adminsistrators. (cutting jobs instead of making them).
I imagine employees would get some sort of pay raise out of it and be directed to a private insurer. IF Obama’s commie health care will allow private insurance.
Waiting in line will provide people plenty of time to complain about socialized medicine.
I’m not sure of all the specifics, but whether the taxes are to the employer or to the employee, this is a bad idea. This might be a transitional problem for Americans until they can buy into the affordable policy touted by Obama during the campaign, but people like me would likely go without health coverage to avoid the taxes. For me, and many others, it would be the same as being taxed on income earned where there was no income, which could be a major tax hike.
why should health benefits be taxed at all? I think this is simple ploy to make private health care more expensive to the consumer and make govt run health care more enticing.