Daschle Sees Movement on Taxing Health Benefits

No taxes for anyone making under 250,000 well except for this and that and of course this.

How do you spell obama?=L_I_A_R

I have no employer provided health care (or retirement) for me and 4 kids. I say tax health care and retirement contributions. If Obama is about fairness (though he really is not), that is fair. My neighbor retired from the county at 49 and gets family health coverage courtesy of the taxpayers!

Tax 'Em -
so it's ok to tax someone out of spite? you're upset about your neighbor's benefits, so you believe we should tax everyone. no one is forcing you into your current line of work. If it is not beneficial financially for you, you should look elsewhere. Don't tax me because you are unwilling to find a job with better benefits.

THE LAST thing any American taxpayer needs is more taxes !

There is a much better fix for health care for taxpayers, patients, businesses, and our national economy unfortunately the health care lobby sees it as a threat to their profits as I am sure you are well aware.

If you like private care, keep it.

For all others.

Without government owned and operated hospitals and clinics substantial cost reductions are not possible.

Government needs to become the basic necessities no frills provider of health care.

The cheapest way to collect money to pay for health care is through a national sales tax, and not by forcing people and companies to purchase questionable insurance to pay excessive costs for services in a failed system.

50 million uninsured people along with every individual and business, who wanted to drop private care and receive free public care and medications, including seniors on Medicare, could do so and the annual costs would still be hundreds of billions of dollars less than the $2.5 trillion spent last year for health care.

KaKa: Name one president who didn't turn on everything they said as a candidate?

Tax'em: How is it fair to tax me because I've worked hard, invested in myself, had fewer kids and have been able to get insurance? Pay your own way.

I remember the Obamabots ridiculing John McCain when he suggested taxing health care benefits. Now that Obama wants the same thing, they're fine with it. It's tough to admit your Messiah is a liar and a typical politician, isn't it?

Obama was elected for one basic reason: he promised to soak the rich and leave the middle class alone. That sounded great to me (I make about $48,000/year). I didn't vote for him, though, because I DIDN'T BELIEVE HIM.

More reason WHY the idea of the government controlling healthcare is an incredibly BAD idea.

We keep hearing how this is going to control costs, and how its going cost us less than current plans that available.

We also heard that if pass the great "Stimulator" unemployment would not go above 9%.

So lets just pass this insane idea, then wait until after to find out just how badly this administration missed the mark this time.

I mean its "change" isn't it?

Some of these comments are disgusting. Soak the Rich, tax my neighbor. Wow has Obama succeeded. His overriding goal in all of this garbage is to pit rich vs poor so he can redistribute wealth. There used to be a time in this country when everyone wanted to be more successful and wanted to be rich. Now people are too lazy and too stupid to work for it so they want the government to steal from those that did. How dare you say soak the rich because I don't have as much as them. Get off your lazy ass and work for it. If you don't want to, fine. But those that do are ENTITLED to it. I am so glad that Democrats are sealing up the homeless, welfare, lazy, uneducated, bitter, jealous voting bloc. That is who I want making decisions in this country. American exceptionalism is all but dead, hail Obama.

We're already paying taxes on the out of pocket premiums we pay for health insurance (those of us who have private, non payroll deducted premiums which can be paid with pre-tax income)so why tax again on the so called "benefit"..The way I look at it , if you are paying out of pocket, it is something you purchase.. not a benefit!

Tax 'Em wrote:"My neighbor retired from the county at 49 and gets family health coverage courtesy of the taxpayers!"

Sometimes the retirement plans are promised to supplement lower pay conditions during the working years.

In the 1990's, I could have jumped to a different county's school system and earned $10,000 per year more. But, to keep from having to compete for salaries, many counties in my state require that you spend at least your last 15 working years with them or you get NO retirement health benefits. So if I went back into teaching, and taught in a different county for 1 day, I'd lose my retirement health benefits. Likewise, veteran teachers can't jump to higher paying count0ies. But it's a win-win situation. The counties keep the salaries down and the teachers get retirement health benefits.

So you can't really say it's "courtesy of the taxpayers" unless you also say the taxpayers paid for reduced teacher salaries "courtesy of the teachers".

Is Daschle still even relevant?

"Obama also pledged repeatedly not to raise any taxes on those making less than $250,000 a year -- a promise that’s far more difficult to keep if he pays for health reform in part by taxing health care benefits." The old bait and switcheroo! Except for payback for the union vote.

So, people that belong to union do not have to pay taxes on their benefits and we must provide health care for the ILLEGALS because the RAZA wants that.Is this how the law of United States works? See you guys at voting time...

Never say never! Execpt when saying over 2/3 of a new government program will be paid by "modernization" and "new savings". IT NEVER HAPPPENS!!!

Don't Blame Me! I Didn't Vote For Obama...Ring..Ring...it's 3 AM !!!!

Most military retired personnel don't make enough to be above the poverty line, so after serving their country and putting their lives on the line, they still have to find work in the private sector.