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Looks like there’s trouble in Beltway taxaholics’ paradise. There are multiple reports that Democrats are backing off a key proposal to tax health benefits to pay for the trillion-dollar government takeover of health care.
WSJ: “A Senate Democrat involved in negotiations on legislation to overhaul the health-care system said senators may be souring on a plan to tax some employer-provided health benefits. Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said that public polls conducted over the July 4 congressional recess and reviewed by senators are causing lawmakers to have second thoughts about limiting the tax exclusion for employer health plans.”
Bloomberg: Senators May Drop Tax Plan for Worker Health Benefits
AP: “Tax on health benefits fading?”
But hey, don’t worry. They’ll find something else to tax. Just give ‘em time.
S G Did you hate George Bush? Did you hate Dick Cheney? If you did, why? There is no hatred for Obama on this site. What you are reading are extremely concerned Americans who questioned, from day one, putting an inexperienced person in the White House. All you have to do today is look at the mess Obama has created for our country. It would’ve been very simple if, in the beginning, Obama and his administration had just given every American $5,000.00 to "stimulate" the economy and retard the loss of jobs. However, he didn’t do that. Instead, he played the democratic political agenda creating a now failed stimulus at a cost to the taxpayers of $787 billion. Now they want another stimulus to dig an even deeper hole. Looks like Obama’s Stimulus is like George Bush’s Katrina perhaps much worse.
Republicans have been outraged by the lack of leadership and ideas from Obama’s White House. The democrats have been arrogant, less than transparent and have demonstrated that they have no idea what they are doing. And you ask the question: "What bothers me? The hatred I see on this site." My answer to that, S G , is that Americans will not sit back and watch Obama destroy our country. Watch the weekly polls and in particular look at the number of Americans who are dissatisfied with what he has done so far. It’s very revealing. His inability to make a difference in foreign policy is breathtaking. His blatant disregard for our economy with his pork laden special interest programs showed his true far left leaning vision instead of what was in the best interest of every American not just the special interest groups. He has lied to his voters and to the country by not keeping his campaign promises. If he had told Americans on his campaign that he was going to raise our debt to $11 million, tax the middle class and look to the rich to fund his health care program would you have voted for him? Probably not. His cap and trade bill which will raise taxes on the middle class is outrageous. His health care bill geared to raise the taxes on the rich and still have millions of Americans uninsured is mind boggling.
And you state…."The hatred I see on this site." Somebody has to speak up because it is for darn sure his voters will support him knowing he has fallen incredibly short of knowing what he is doing. And, yet, you continue to support a sinking ship. When George Bush was in office, the American people were quick to bring him down at the knees for a war they thought was a "personal" grudge the Bush’s had against Saddam Hussein. President Obama goes to Russia and states that Iraq is a better place today because of our intervention. GITMO remains open despite his pledge to close it in his first week in office. It just goes on and on.
Your question: "Can we all try to talk or am I wasting my time?" In order for reasonable discussions to take place we have to first agree that Obama’s biggest mistake was "constantly blaming" a previous administration instead of taking the enormous task at hand to stimulate the economy with tax cuts and money in the pockets of Americans who were going to spend, spend, spend. Instead he did something else. It didn’t work and a second stimulus will not work. Big government doesn’t work in America.
Control is necessary in such a way that Americans should be in control over what happens to their country. You elected this President for all the wrong reasons and he has failed all of us. The longer he is in office the more mistakes he makes. When will you start to take your country back? When will you decide that you have had enough?
What I would like discussed on this site is "how" a man can be nothing more than a community organizer, write a book to "invent" himself to the public and become the President of the United States? Why were intelligent people caught up in the aura of this man?
As republicans, this is what we know about McCain….he would’ve immediately cut taxes…..Ronald Reagan did it after being handed one of the worse recessions and inflationary numbers this country has ever seen….The democrats have a different mindset….and that is to spend the country into the ground and then tax the rich. President Obama, being far left leaning, something he did not reveal during his campaign, has an altogether different vision and it is not working. In fact, it is paralyzing our country and other countries. The Europeans and Asia are looking at Obama and showing their deep concerns.
The democrats are between a rock and hard place right now. They elected this President and many are not happy with the outcome. And, personally, I believe seven months in office and the debt he has created without providing the jobs he promised is plenty of time to know that he doesn’t know what he is doing. What is also amazing to me is that there is not a person Obama selected for his administration who has ever run a big company. These ivy league attornies don’t seem to have a clue on how to turn a country around.
It is going to be very hard for democrats to come to terms with what is happening and the blame is now at Obama’s feet.
At least President Obama can speak proper English. He doesn’t embarrass us the way Bush did with sloppy speech and insincere delivery, engrossed in lies he tryed to make us believe. You have to give him that. Obama, in fact, is the only president I could stand listening to for more than five minutes. Remember, he hasn’t even been in office for a year and he has inherited an enourmous debt around lies and manipulation and poisoned relationships with other countries. People around the world LIKE him. They even like us now. I can travel to other countries without a bag over my American head. I don’t like some appointments he made with people in bed with Monsanto, that’s for sure. But, I don’t know what goes on in the White House, and either do you, it’s a different planet in so many ways. So, Let’s give him a chance, OK? There is alot that is happening that is beyond his control. He is definitely a fine leader.