Be careful what you
ask for
The election hangover is coming. For all those who voted to put Obama back in
office for another four years, you asked for it.
So let’s not hear any whining from Obama supporters.
Obama and the Democrats ran big on everyone paying their “fair
share” of taxes, especially “the rich.”
They wanted to let the Bush Tax cuts expire for families making over
$250,000 a year – the reviled 1% we’ve heard all about. In fact, just the other day Obama claimed that
his victory was a mandate on raising taxes on the wealthy.
If that’s what they want, I say let them do it. Obama won the election and it’s time to give
his supporters what they voted for, whether they like it or not.
Go ahead, let the cuts expire for families making over
$250,000 a year in return for extending the tax cuts for everyone else.
But nothing more.
When Chuck Schumer makes his pitch again to preserve those
same “unfair” tax cuts for families making up to a million bucks a year,
turn him down.
Apparently, Chuckie’s constituents in New York make a lot
more money than a paltry $250,000 a year.
Which, I guess, makes them the rarest of rare – “good” 1
percenters. Too bad.
If memory serves me, his constituents voted overwhelmingly
for Obama. We’re only giving them what
they voted for.
You want to raise taxes on the rich? Well, you got it. No exceptions.
Take the same approach to ObamaCare. Don’t try to repeal it.
Instead, remove all the exemptions and exceptions. Like the carve out for unions. The waivers for businesses in Nancy Pelosi’s
district. The Louisiana deal. The Cornhusker Compromise. All the side deals and special interest
payoffs. Strip them all out. And bring the individual mandate back in full
force. No exceptions.
But leave all the taxes in.
Like the tax on medical devices companies on their gross
sales, not their profits. That will be
applied to everything from Pacemakers to MRI machines; you’ll be paying for
that, too. There’s also an increase in
the rate employers pay for their contribution to their employees’ Medicare. There
are new caps on Flexible Spending Accounts.
And more. Goes on and on.
By removing all the exemptions and exceptions, we can make ObamaCare
“pure” again and see how much people
like it. Let everyone feel the full weight of it.
Let everyone see how under ObamaCare employee benefits are
now treated as taxable income. Yes, that’s
right, employees will soon start paying tax, personally, on the value of the
healthcare benefits they get from their employer. That’s probably going to cost them more than
the “free” birth control pills they’ll get.
Bet those who voted for Obama didn’t know that. Or that a whole bunch of other
ObamaCare-related taxes are about to hit.
They thought they were voting for “free” stuff. They are in for a surprise.
Next up, the payroll tax holiday. Let that expire. After all, we’re worried about funding Social
Security – and not cutting that entitlement – so let’s let the working Joe and
Jill kick into it, instead of just their employers. Plus, people voted to raise taxes, according
to the Democrats.
Again, give them what they wanted.
People tried valiantly to tell the public that nothing is
free. Someone has to pay for
everything. Yet they voted for the party
that promised them more free stuff, and a bunch of new regulations and taxes –
but they always assumed those would be on someone else.
Surprise. Bad
assumption. You will get precisely what
you voted for.
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