Opposing Obama's tax hike on the rich, Baucus proposes taxing your health care benefits

antigop

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Mon Mar-09-09 01:38 PM
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Opposing Obama's tax hike on the rich, Baucus proposes taxing your health care benefits

http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=12108

Remember when reading the following story that Max Baucus calls himself a Democrat, and that the Senate Democratic Caucus inexplicably keeps this man in the chairmanship of the committee overseeing tax and health care policy:

Sen. Max Baucus says he'd prefer funding health care reform by taxing people's health benefits rather than phasing out tax deductions on the richest Americans...President Obama is proposing to phase out income tax deductions for people making more than $250,000 a year. Baucus has told Obama he doesn't like that idea.

Baucus technically represents one of the poorest states in the nation - I say technically, because he's made clear he really represents K Street and the super-rich. This latest declaration makes that abundantly clear.

Baucus leans towards taxing health care benefits:
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20090308/NEWS01/90308003

K Street's Favorite Democrat:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070319/berman

NOTE TO MAX: WHAT PART OF 'SINGLE-PAYER' DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?

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Vinca

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Mon Mar-09-09 01:41 PM
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1. Actually, wouldn't that be an incentive for people to drop their health insurance

at work and sign on to a government plan if given the option? Also, wasn't that tax on health insurance benefits the essence of John McCain's healthcare solution?

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antigop

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Mon Mar-09-09 01:44 PM
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4. McCain's plan-- yes, that's what I recall. n/t

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endarkenment

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Mon Mar-09-09 01:46 PM
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7. no and yes

Your employer would still be subsidizing around 80% of the cost, so there would be no economic incentive to opt out and buy - entirely with your own money - the federal plan, if there even is one in Baucus's bullshit. And yes this sounds like McCain's crap.

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PM Martin

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Mon Mar-09-09 01:42 PM
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2. He sounds like a right winger to me.

He wants to add an additional tax onto the shrinking middle class? :wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf:

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endarkenment

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Mon Mar-09-09 01:44 PM
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3. I thought McCain was convincingly beaten

why are 'Democratic' legislators pushing McCain's healthcare 'plan'?

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antigop

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Mon Mar-09-09 01:45 PM
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Because Baucus is K Street's favorite Democrat -- see the link in the OP n/t

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OHdem10

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Mon Mar-09-09 01:45 PM
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5. Baucus will always support only Business and the Elites.

He took the wrath of his people at home when he went GOP and
voted the Medicare Drug Bill. Hope the people at home find
it possible to simply find another Democrat and replace Baucus.

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sinkingfeeling

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Mon Mar-09-09 01:45 PM
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6. Ever notice how the 'working class' gets taxed on everything? We're taxed on

the interest we earn, the unemployment benefits we claim, the utilities we use, etc. But the super wealthy and businesses get more and more tax breaks.

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Mojorabbit

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Mon Mar-09-09 02:00 PM
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8. I just fired off an email to his office. Thanks

Edited on Mon Mar-09-09 02:01 PM by Mojorabbit

edited to give his contact info

http://baucus.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

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