Senator Max Baucus, $1Billion new tax on employees

To Pay for Obamacare, Tax Raises for America… Except Union Members

By Warner Todd Huston Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The Senate is about to pay off the unions for helping get Obama elected. Senator Max Baucus (D, Mont.) looks to be about ready to propose a plan to pay for Obama’s massive, more than $1 trillion in new government spending on healthcare by instituting a new tax on many employees that currently have healthcare through their workplace (nearly 1 in 8 workers according to Peter Barnes). Never having been “incomeâ€