Comments on: House Dems Consider Taxing Benefits

By: Confucius

Confucius — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:12:49 +0000

Oooooooweeee! Luv that pimp ring. Totally boss.

By: neocon mom

neocon mom — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:10:36 +0000

OIbammy said during the campaign you’d be able to keep your private insurance–sure, if there are any in business after this.
The smackdown has begun. We are trading our prosperity, self-sufficiency and dignity for that liberal ideal of state-rationed healthcare. Soon we’ll all receive our user guides for our state run “insurance” program in the mail, entitled “Eugenics–You’ll Get Used To It!”

By: MinnesotaRush

MinnesotaRush — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:45:03 +0000

These continue to be very bleak and black days for America!

I see no good ending to this movie!

By: VMAN

VMAN — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:49:05 +0000

Just the first little step on the road to imputed income. Get health car benefits? tax em. Drive a company car home? tax it. Is your mortgage lower than your neighbors? tax the difference. Is your car paid for but your neighbor has a loan? tax the difference. Do you have a garden? Tax those veggies. And on and on.

By: GL0120

GL0120 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:31:02 +0000

As to what promise TCO has kept, there is the matter of redistributing the wealth – from us to him.

By: locomotivebreath1901

locomotivebreath1901 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:17:30 +0000

There will be increased taxes. Anyone who thought otherwise is a damned fool (i.e.: Obama voter) And, like most corrupt-o-crats associated with Obama's socialist agenda, Rep. Rangel is a world class hypocrite, tax cheat, and liar - a job requirement for this outfit, apparently.

By: Howard Roark

Howard Roark — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:59:13 +0000

OK, let me get this straight:
We’re hemorrhaging jobs every month for many, many months, now…
Sectors of the economy have yet to burst, and we are told this job loss is predicted to continue at least a year longer than originally predicted by the Obama administration…
The debt we’re incurring from Barry’s stimulus packages means that the value of the dollar declines which translates to fewer and fewer foreign investors buying our debt…

And TOTUS wants to not only tax those earning much less than 250,000/yr, he wants to harden this jobless period by forcing already-beleagured small-medium business owners to pay their employees less every two weeks, where he must consider whether to increase his employees’ salary base to compensate for their loss (health care tax) in order to keep that employee, or maintain the current salary level and risk them leaving because they can’t pay their monthly bills anymore.

How will he hire more people in this kind of a climate?

By: canary

canary — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:37:36 +0000

He said he would cut VA benefits, medicare, and medicaid during his speech moments ago, of unnecessary fluffs they get that they don’t need. He’s targeting the old and disabled now. Gives’s ya a head up of his health-care plan, kind of a starve them out. He figures old people will die younger, and less to draw SS. Old people going back to work, is another reason Obama needs to stop the illegal traffic and amnesty b.s. he’s proposed.

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:31:22 +0000

Charley Rangel is their poster boy?
You know that there is way too much kool aid drinking goin’ on when Chuckles is their poster boy for a tax increase!!
Really laughable!!!!

By: tranquil.night

tranquil.night — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:15:02 +0000

It’s been six months, Democrats, how can you not get how this works? You pass the faulty unread bill, wait for it to cause a crisis, THEN tell everyone we “need” to raise taxes to pay for it!

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:08:52 +0000

What day is this?
Oh yeah ……blablablabblablablabla top 5% will be taxed and those making $250,000.00 or less will see no increase blablablablablablabla.

It won’t float people…..it just won’t do it!!!!

By: artpa

artpa — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:53:39 +0000

Dang, again you beat me to the punch… i was writing.. lemee guess, party line vote in the house, party line vote in the senate with 3 defectors from the GOP (even mc cain will vote no) , reluctantly signed into law by the prez as the teleprompter tells us it was a bad idea but …. (insert Rahm Emanuel explanation here) ….

By: proreason

proreason — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:50:17 +0000

The commercial didn’t say Obama WOULD NOT tax health care benefits, it said McCain WOULD (which McCain didn’t say).

But of course, Obamy DID promise not to increases taxes on any but the top 5% of Americans.

Which is why Congress will have carry that water, and The Moron will be forced to reluctantly agree, since he is ever the pragmatist. And since he now carries the weighty responsibility of the POTUS, he cannot, for the good of the American people, let himself be locked into absolutes, as was his predecessor, particularly when Congress so eloquently makes the case for a tax so necessary to undo the damage done by Bushhitler.