Surprise: Unions Get A Special Two Year Exemption From Health Coverage Tax In Obamacare Bill

Dan Rheil says, “From the UAW in the auto bailout, to federal contracts, too many other items to list and now health care reform, Obama is probably the single largest contributor to corrupt union funding than anyone else in history.” That’s undoubtedly right, and the health care bill is yet another example of how, if you’re a union member, you’re a different class of American citizen under Obama.
One with certain exemptions and privileges.

The labor unions have been fighting the Senate health care bill for some time now–specifically, the provision that levies high taxes on “Cadillac” plans that exceed certain maximums. That was expected to be a sticking point in the negotiations between the Senate and the House, but as Samuel Johnson once said, “the prospect of being hanged focuses the mind wonderfully.” With the potential loss of their 60 vote majority lurking ahead, they can’t dawdle on the details; it’s time to haul in their lente and festina like hell.
And so it looks like they may have reached a deal sooner than otherwise expected: unions get a special two-year exclusion from the tax.

Seems to me that if we have a health care bill we should all pay for it. Certain people should be exempted, and certain other people shouldn’t be targeted.
Of course, if Democrats had to try and pass a bill that everyone had to pay for (or at least the illusion of that not being true) they wouldn’t be able to pass anything at all.

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  • http://Array sayanything-1439

    Funny, they are supposed to be the party that fights for the little guy. The truth is shinning like a beacon in the night…

    atease

  • sayanything-4928

    shocker

  • sayanything-203

    So what the troika of Obama, Reid, and Pelosi is pushing is, in essence, a two-tiered, separate but unequal system. Freinds of Democrats don’t pay… everyone else does. And this from people who are hypocritical enough to call themselves “Democrats.”

  • sayanything-795

    Aren’t you glad Obama wasn’t going to be beholden to special interest groups. All those campaign proclamations are so silly, aren’t they.

  • AKA WOOF

    The Senators of the House of Lords
    are not necessarily have the last word.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Heh.

  • robert108

    Two Americas.

  • sayanything-4603

    the banner barry is behind hits it “creating the new american dream” must be the new class system. it’s all buy design to demoralize us .rules for radicials.

  • jimmypop

    “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

  • sayanything-342

    Tax beaks for “everyone” dum dum.

    This is more campaign fodder for the GOP. In the long run this will damage the Democrats further. Class warfare works both ways.

  • tarpon

    I wonder how this squares with equal protection under law.

  • sayanything-36189

    Follow this Cadillac Health Plan stuff over the next few months. Unions have them and so do Federal Employees. Watch WHO gets exempt from the new cool rules that are about to surface.

  • sayanything-101

    Obama is the best President labor goonion money can buy!

  • sayanything-101

    That first amendment was just a quaint notion of dead white men.

  • hannitized

    I thought conservatives like tax breaks??? What gives? Can’t be ODS, can it?

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