Change you can believe in...

Today's Wall Street Journal has an editorial worth your attention. There is no better term for the ObamaCare Bill than Despotism. It's all very well for Congressmen and Senators to look out for their states, but this bill is a pure transfer payment from Republicans to Democrats. There is built into the bill a 40% tax on the most comprehensive -- and thus most expensive -- health care plans: But it does not apply to everyone. Longshoremen, for instance, are exempt -- and of course their unions have negotiated some of the most comprehensive healthcare short of what Congress gets. Other lines of work, nearly all heavily unionized, are exempt from the 40% tax (which will pretty well eliminate these plans for those who aren't exempt from the tax). Also, 17 States will be exempt; for the rest it's just too bad. There is no attempt at an explanation for these arbitrary transfers from those taxed to those not taxed. There is no logical reason why some are taxed and some are not. It's simply a set of earmarks, rewards to those supporting the "plan" and punishment for those who don't.

It's exactly what the Constitution was designed to prevent, a despotic transfer of wealth from one group to another.

Change you can believe in.

Those "Cadillac" health care plans...

(Posted by Lew Rockwell on December 21, 2009 05:03 PM)

According to the Obamites’ media flacks, these scorned private plans will be taxed by the Senate bill. Will the Free Cadillac plans given to that vast army of federal tax-eaters, who make so much more than the tax victims, also be taxed?

Surely you jest.

Will BHO and Congress also be covered?

A few days ago on ABC, during the "Network Special on Health Care," someone asked Obama: "MR. PRESIDENT, WILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY GIVE UP YOUR CURRENT HEALTH CARE PROGRAM AND JOIN THE NEW 'UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM' THAT THE REST OF US WILL BE ON?"

Following a stony silence, Obama IGNORED THE QUESTION AND DID NOT ANSWER IT!!!

In addition, numerous senators were asked the same question, and their response was "we will think about it..." And they did. It was recently announced that they wrote the "Kennedy Health Care Bill" into the new Health Care Reform Initiative ensuring that Congress will receive a 100% EXEMPTION!

So, this great new health care plan that is good for you and I is not good enough for Obama, his family, or Congress?

Why should we accept a Universal Health Care overhaul that doesn't extend to everyone, only to us lowly citizens, while the Washington "Elite" keep right on with their gold-plated health care coverages?