Thread: Cadillac Tax Evasion - for Nation’s Labor Unions

January 14, 2010 4:00 AM

Cadillac Tax Evasion

By the Editors

The nation’s labor unions, according to Congress Daily, have cut a deal with House Democrats: Labor will drop its opposition to the so-called Cadillac tax — an excise tax on high-cost employer-provided health-care plans — if Congress will carve out an exemption for plans provided under collective-bargaining agreements. Even after all the unsavory bargains and rotten deals that have characterized the rush to get this thing passed (the “Louisiana Purchase,â€

so now this means that a union member with health care wont be paying taxes on it till 2017, but someone who is not in the union has to start paying now........ How fair is that?

taxing millionaires. But this tax is going nowhere in the Senate. Thus yesterday’s compromise: A version of the Senate’s preferred tax, but with a carve-out for the Democrats’ most powerful special-interest group.

It's always funny how taxing working people is ok, but taxing millionaires is taboo. Any social programs have to be payed for with more taxes. Bailing out bankers and other corporate criminal adventures are passed without how to pay for it mentioned or a concern. They just print money and charge us interest for it. Do you think the people's who occupies the people's seats in Washington would ever tax their masters or even talk about rising taxes to do so? So blame the Unions there the one who are running things, . Wake up!

Originally Posted by domack

It's always funny how taxing working people is ok, but taxing millionaires is taboo.

Almost every Senator is a multi-millionaire.