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These destructive #Obamacare tax hikes will soon be implemented: http://t.co/opFkyf1guJ
May 14, 2013 01:01 PM
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"Saying the Marketplace Fairness Act is fair is like saying the Affordable Care Act makes health care affordable" -@MarshaBlackburn
May 14, 2013 12:30 PM
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"I can't believe #Obamacare led to higher health care costs," said no economist ever: http://t.co/J6dfnKqFYZ
May 14, 2013 12:01 PM
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#Obamacare's 10% tanning tax hits salon owners and customers, most of which are women: http://t.co/dJuaGAT9LE
May 14, 2013 11:01 AM
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Groups who advocated for the IRS to prepare tax returns sure look foolish these days: http://t.co/oKvpIofu7Y
May 13, 2013 06:30 PM
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"We don't need the federal government mandating additional taxes..." -@MarshaBlackburn on MFA: http://t.co/lAuLJtr5t3 #NoNetTax
May 13, 2013 06:00 PM
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Health insurers and businesses are already feeling the iron-clad grip of regulations in #Obamacare: http://t.co/J6dfnKqFYZ
May 13, 2013 05:30 PM
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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell Signs Largest Tax Hike in Virginia History into Law http://t.co/Qd6KOFfaPv
May 13, 2013 03:46 PM
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Under #Obamacare, mothers have had a tougher time purchasing non-prescription, over-the-counter medicine: http://t.co/dJuaGAT9LE
May 13, 2013 02:01 PM
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9 out of 20 #Obamacare tax hikes have not even been implemented yet: http://t.co/opFkyf1guJ
May 13, 2013 01:30 PM
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Democrat Senator Rips Middle Class Taxes in the Baucus Health Care Bill
Senator Baucus released his supposedly “moderate” health care proposal yesterday, and he is already drawing fire from Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller (W. Va..) for raising taxes! Rockefeller complained that:
[Baucus] should understand that (his proposal) means that virtually every single coal miner is going to have a big, big tax put on them because the tax will be put on the company and the company will immediately pass it down and lower benefits because they are self insured, most of them, because they are larger.
Rockefeller is no doubt worried that the tax will fall on the wrong sort of taxpayers – his own constituents. “Cadillac coverage”, ironically enough, is most common among some groups of the lower and middle class. West Virginia’s coal industry is heavily unionized, and these unions have negotiated generous benefit packages for their members. These workers and older, sicker Americans with high premiums, will bear the brunt of Baucus’s proposed tax. The AFL-CIO, for one, is not pleased.
Americans for Tax Reform agrees that this tax hike is a bad idea. But the solution is not to dump the tax on another group of voters that happen to live outside of West Virginia, as Senator Rockefeller no doubt prefers. The solution is to enact consumer-based health care reforms that don’t require the Baucus bill’s $900 billion increase in wasteful spending.
