Comments on: Biden disagrees with taxing health care premiums

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:33:41 +0000

The devil is in the details…

“…this is an indirect tax …”

That’s their loophole. They will *effectively* be taxing it, while not legislating an explicit tax. Without something called a “health care premium tax” on the books, they get the best of both worlds.

These guys are in the top of their class in this regard – they’re lawyers and you have to parse every word they say many different ways. They choose their words carefully (well, Obama does… Biden doesn’t know what he’s saying most of the time) and they’re chosen to obfuscate, and mislead.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:47:27 +0000

I don’t think they should tax the benefits either. It’s too much. If they’re helping us with giving us universal health insurance why penalize us at the same time. It will be interesting to see where this will lead.
Jerry

By: Candice

Candice — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:10:16 +0000

Another problem with this tax, the ‘benefit’ isn’t worth the amount the employer says. I know someone who opted out of our employer paid benefits. For this, she gets paid an extra $200 a YEAR. Not a month. But I promise that I would get taxed on much more than $200 a year.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:11:15 +0000

Especially Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden. Time and time again, they say one thing and do the other.

If you think your taxes aren’t going up just because you make less than $250K, your crazy.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:04:54 +0000

If the administration wants to keep their word to the American people, they won’t tax the benefits at all. But you and I know that you should take a politician’s word with a grain of salt.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:44:19 +0000

It’s going to be interesting to see how they begin the plan. Taxes are inevitable with the case and seems like one way or the other there will be big changes.