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Posted by: RandysRight in Untagged on
Mar 13, 2010
As a citizen concerned about our nation's health care system, I thought you'd like to know that the health care bill being rammed through the House contains 10 years worth of tax increases to pay for only 6 years worth of benefits. These taxes total $500 billion dollars over 10 years. Many of these taxes will affect Americans earning less than $200,000 a year, despite the President's promise to avoid such taxes. Here are just a few of the taxes contained in the bill:
$750 penalty per worker charged to employers who fail to provide government-sanctioned health insurance
Tax on brand name drugs-totaling $2.3 billion
Increased penalty for early withdrawal from your HSA (from 10% to 20%)
Tax on medical devices-totaling $19.2 billion
10% tax on indoor tanning services
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU: Some of these taxes may affect you directly. Others, like the employer mandate, will cost our economy desperately needed jobs. Others will have ripple effects through the system that will raise prices for everyone. THE DOCTOR'S DIAGNOSIS: America needs common sense health reform, not job-killing taxes. Future Congresses will be under pressure to raise taxes even further to pay for future years of an expanded government-administered health care system. As this process unfolds, I will continue to work to represent you, bring common-sense to this debate, expose abuses of power and do all I can to prevent bad policy from becoming law.
FIRST, those crazy Democrats still drunk with power following the 2008 elections and Arlen Specter's decision to give them a filibuster proof super-majority ... decided that they didn't "need no Republicans" to pass a Health Care Reform their socialist special interests masters would love ... So, they completely shut out Republicans from the discussion of crafting the Health Care Reform Legislation
(SIDENOTE: Before you buy into the Republicans are partisan hacks focusing on their own good at the expense of the country line from the Left in Washington, remember that the Senate Republican Caucus includes the likes of Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, George Voinovich, Lindsey Graham, Lamar Alexander, Dick Lugar, John McCain, Bob Corker, Johnny Isakson, even Judd Gregg who was offered and initially accepted a position in the Obama Administration(!!). These are men and women who compose 25% of the Republican Caucus and (usually to the extreme disappointment of those of us on the Right) have a loooooong collective history of working with Democrats on bipartisan legislation.)
