On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:42:03 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

"President Obama, in a pivot from some of his harshest campaign
rhetoric, told Democratic senators yesterday that he is willing to
consider taxing employer-sponsored health benefits to help pay for a
broad expansion of coverage."

http://tinyurl.com/kvkndy

Is this a tax aimed at those who don’t need or use government health
insurance? If you’re already getting benefits from your employer,
you’re opting out of ObamaCare, no?

Is this a case of forcing the private insurance by employeers to be
canceled and forcing employees into a national care system?

If that's the case where’s all the revenue from taxing health benefits
coming from?

I’m missing something. The way I read it, private plans will be taxed
to pay for national health care thus, in practice, forcing people to
move to the national system which is being paid for by taxes on
insurance benefits that no longer exist.

Obama now wants to do the same thing he came down on McCain for during
the campaign.

If your employer is contributing towards your health insurance, then
that contribution should (according to Obama and McCain) be taxed as
income.

Of course, the major media, which ate McCain alive (paid for by the
Obama campaign, of course) will make no mention of the fact that Obama
is doing what McCain proposed.
--
John H

"The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money." --Margaret Thatcher