How Will Americans React?

[Mr Roxy]

How Will Americans React?#1

Posted: 6/3/09 at 9:37pm

How will the American public react to having their healthcare benefits subject to tax like income?

Obama was against it but is now looking toward doing it since Congress wants it. If it becomes law, a lot of people who voted for change will decide this is not the change they voted for & the democrats will lose a lot of voters. The biggest losers would be public employee unions, who backed him in the election. The public employees of cities and states will really take it on the chin as they have gold plated benefits.

This should prove interesting.

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Updated On: 6/3/09 at 09:37 PM

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: How Will Americans React?#2

Posted: 6/3/09 at 9:43pm

"This should prove interesting."

As opposed to your posts...

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[defyingravity07]

re: How Will Americans React?#2

Posted: 6/3/09 at 9:46pm

[ZONEACE]

re: How Will Americans React?#3

Posted: 6/3/09 at 9:51pm

best photo ever.

when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.

[JustAGuy]

re: How Will Americans React?#4

Posted: 6/3/09 at 9:57pm

The American Public will probably wait, until there is an actual proposal on the table, before they react. Unlike you, who reacts at suppositions and what ifs, as if they were reality.

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[nomdeplume]

re: How Will Americans React?#5

Posted: 6/3/09 at 9:58pm

I wonder if the income from that would be put toward the national health plan's funding as that will be costly but we need it.

I don't care if the national health plan competes with health insurance companies because they are horrible and don't pay when they should.

[Gothampc]

re: How Will Americans React?#6

Posted: 6/3/09 at 11:35pm

I wonder how this will work.

On one level, I understand that it will be considered income. So if your employer pays $50 per month for your health insurance, you're taxed on the $50 per month.

Of course they collect taxes on any medicine that is dispensed.

But I wonder if they will tax medical procedures. Can a doctor's visit be taxed as "services rendered"?

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