For the first time in American history, he wants to tax your health benefits

[dapoes]

Election Flashback:

"For the first time in American history, he wants to tax your health benefits," Obama said in September. "Apparently, Senator McCain doesn't think it's enough that your health premiums have doubled. He thinks you should have to pay taxes on them, too."

Hope and Change has come

President Pivots on Taxing Benefits
Obama Is Willing to Consider Move to Gain Health Reform

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.

Private-sector businesses spend about $518 billion a year on their workers' health insurance, benefits that are not taxed. If workers had to pay taxes on their health coverage, it would raise $246 billion in revenue each year, according to the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.

I dimly recall a promise being made during the campaign that people who make less than $250,000 a year wouldn’t be paying any new taxes.

Am I misunderstanding or would this be a tax aimed specifically at people 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? Or is the whole idea here that once ObamaCare’s in effect, businesses will cancel their private insurance and force employees to opt into universal health care? In which case, er, where’s all the revenue from taxing health benefits coming from?

Guess all those people that voted for Obama because "he was the lesser of two evils" feel a bit embarrassed to say the least. :huh: