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Politicians are scrambling to be the first to kneel at the Messiah’s altar with the sacrificial lamb that will save the liberal agenda for so-called health care reform. One candidate for the master’s ritual offering is presented in the excerpt below.

Lawmakers led by Senator Max Baucus are talking about slapping a $495 tax on some of those covered by the medical plan to help pay for extending coverage to some of the 46 million Americans who lack it.

For employers currently offering health care plans such a tax burden may reach the tipping point requiring at best a lower tier benefit package that reduces benefits for employees who are covered now. This benefit tax proposal flies in the face of the Obama campaign promise not to raise taxes on those earning less than $250,000 per year. Gee Wally, another broken campaign promise. Say it isn’t so.

Yesterday, Baucus and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad of North Dakota, a Democrat, said a bill being drafted by the panel would contain the tax.

And if you didn’t believe the healthcare reform proposal did not exist as stated in many posts on this blog here is some more evidence to support that notion.

Five congressional committees are drafting versions of the legislation that has to be adopted by both the House and Senate.

Liberals in Congress also contend that higher income earners unfairly benefit from tax subsidies of healthcare benefits which provide them elective or unnecessary procedures. That is an extremely broad generalization that does not deal with details in much the same way the non-existent reform proposal does. Even if it were ‘mostly’ true, it points to the notion that liberals want to decide what healthcare you can and cannot receive. That is why private healthcare coverage offered in the free market is valuable. Sure, everyone may not be able to afford what they want but that is the case with every product or service in the universe. Not all of us can afford everything. That should not preclude those who can from getting it. Unless you support the redistribution of wealth. It is interesting that liberals deny that part of their agenda but are clearly chasing it with healthcare reform.

And BTW, using the word ‘reform’ with any public issue should be another red flag for you. It is a common tool to give the appearance of doing the right thing. What has happened thus far in this episode of New Deal government intervention at public expense should be adequate evidence this effort is flawed and in no citizen’s best interest. It serves those who are developing it. And that is not you or me.

Read the rest of the story linked in this post. It’s worth your time.

One last note which follows up on a previous post here alleging labor unions support the reform proposals for their special interest benefit. The article linked here supports that allegation.

In addition, Baucus has proposed to exempt health benefits secured in collective-bargaining agreements, such as those with labor unions.

A previous post here presented a video from MoveOn and reference to a labor union boss who attacked Sen Feinstein for having reservations about the cost of reform. You don’t suppose the labor boss was thinking of the benefit tax exemption for unions do you? Right.

Stanford Matthews
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