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Looking out for the Unions

aplusmnt

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Seems the Democrats are looking out for the unions some more.

Not only was the Union deal gotten by Obama and the car companies wrong and against the law.

But now they propose to tax all of our Health care benefits and if that was not bad enough, they are proposing to tax everyone except those working for unions.

How can anyone even come close to approving of this kind of crap.

I swear the U.S. is turning upside down and nothing makes sense anymore. The Democrats are like turning a 5 year old loose in a Candy store with no rules. :mad:

If this kind of crap keeps up, it will not be long I will be claiming to be Canadian and embarrassed to say I am American!

I was a kid back in the Carter days, any older people remember, was it this crazy?

My dad worked in a union company for 13 years and use to tell me to buy union. Well if I see a union tag in anything I will now buy something else. I would rather buy Chinese made goods than union made goods. :mad:


Union Members Exempt from New Health Benefits Tax
by Jed Babbin

06/22/2009


Union members and their families who receive healthcare benefits paid for by their employers would be exempted from a new tax on healthcare under one option being proposed by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mt), according to a report by the Fox Business Channel’s Peter Barnes.

Baucus’s plan would tax health care benefits to raise from $161.9 billion to $418 billion over ten years to fund the nationalized “government provider” of health care benefits President Obama and Democrats want. Peter Barnes told me, “There would be preferential treatment for unions” under one version of the Baucus proposal.

As shown on page 3 of the Baucus outline published by Fox News under two of Baucus’ four options, healthcare benefits provided under collective bargaining agreements dated on or before January 1, 2013 would be exempt from the tax.


Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is taking a very risky path to his bill, which is different from both the Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) draft and the drafts now being prepared in the House.

As Barnes’ report says the exemption may be essential to passing the bill:

“The tax proposals also likely face strong opposition from some of the President’s and the Democratic party’s key supporters -- unions that enjoy more generous health-care benefits won through hard-fought contact negotiations over decades. Apparently anticipating some objections about the possibility of affecting contracts already in place, Baucus has proposed protecting some union benefits by “grandfathering” collective-bargaining agreements existing on January 1, 2013, in his “base plus 10%” and “base plus 20%” options, according to his presentation.

But it’s not clear when or if ever that exemption would ever expire. Union agreements dated before January 2013 could be extended indefinitely even if other benefits and terms change. All that’s apparently necessary to perpetuate the pre-2013 date would be to have both parties agree to modifications rather than a new agreement.

This proposal is entirely consistent with the Obama administration’s handling of the GM and Chrysler bailouts which inure to the benefit of the United Autoworkers Union and not to the companies’ shareholders. It would penalize every non-union recipient of employer-provided healthcare benefits.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32398
 

Steve

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so to provide low cost health care to those who can't afford it, or made the choice not to, so they could have more stuff, will be funded by those of us who made sacrifices to be personally responsible.. (except old union guys)

now is that really making health care insurance more affordable?.. to me it sounds like my health insurance will cost more..
 

aplusmnt

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Steve said:
so to provide low cost health care to those who can't afford it, or made the choice not to, so they could have more stuff, will be funded by those of us who made sacrifices to be personally responsible.. (except old union guys)

now is that really making health care insurance more affordable?.. to me it sounds like my health insurance will cost more..

That's how libs do things, punish those that worked for what they have and give to those who do not work for it! :mad:
 

Sandhusker

Well-known member
aplusmnt said:
Steve said:
so to provide low cost health care to those who can't afford it, or made the choice not to, so they could have more stuff, will be funded by those of us who made sacrifices to be personally responsible.. (except old union guys)

now is that really making health care insurance more affordable?.. to me it sounds like my health insurance will cost more..

That's how libs do things, punish those that worked for what they have and give to those who do not work for it! :mad:

You guys make that sound like a bad thing. "Spreading the wealth" sounds so much better.
 
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