Friday, April 17, 2009
Another Obama lie exposed ...
From the April 6, 2009 National Review):
Obama’s budget director, Peter Orszag, said the administration might be open to taxing employer-provided health benefits. When John McCain proposed the idea last year, Obama denounced it in a series of ads as a middle-class tax increase. But neither Orszag nor anyone else in the administration is talking, as McCain did, about coupling the tax hike with a new tax break for individually purchased health insurance. This plan thus really would increase taxes on the middle class, and disrupt people’s health-care arrangements to boot. Moving away from a subsidized employer-based health-care system to something more market-friendly would be terrific. Moving away from employer coverage to a more government-centered system, as Obama appears to want to do, is a mistake.
So much for our current president being beyond reproach ...!
Obama’s budget director, Peter Orszag, said the administration might be open to taxing employer-provided health benefits. When John McCain proposed the idea last year, Obama denounced it in a series of ads as a middle-class tax increase. But neither Orszag nor anyone else in the administration is talking, as McCain did, about coupling the tax hike with a new tax break for individually purchased health insurance. This plan thus really would increase taxes on the middle class, and disrupt people’s health-care arrangements to boot. Moving away from a subsidized employer-based health-care system to something more market-friendly would be terrific. Moving away from employer coverage to a more government-centered system, as Obama appears to want to do, is a mistake.
So much for our current president being beyond reproach ...!
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Friday, April 17, 2009 
