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ObamaCare's latest bribe
New York Post ^ | 01/15/2010 | Staff

Posted on 01/15/2010 8:38:30 AM PST by safetysign

It took two days of wrangling behind closed White House doors under the demanding gaze of big-labor bosses, but President Obama won a major health-care victory yesterday. The same can't be said of America. The deal in a nutshell: a big, fat wet kiss for labor unions, which won exemption from a proposed 40 percent tax on on expansive private health-insurance plans until 2018. Meanwhile, those with generous plans that are not the product of collective-bargaining agreements get to pay beginning immediately. And to pay and pay and pay. The tax (along with deep cuts in Medicare funding) was meant to be the chief funding mechanism for Obama's plan. Talk about a terrible deal.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: bribe; obamacare; unions
Unions get to eff the taxpayer again.
1 posted on 01/15/2010 8:38:30 AM PST by safetysign
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To: safetysign
Every one else will have to pay more for Obamacare. The ultimate midnight deal.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

2 posted on 01/15/2010 8:40:21 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: safetysign

stop the scumbags.


3 posted on 01/15/2010 8:41:12 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man gets crucified.)
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To: safetysign

You know what they say...
“All Animals are Equal.
Some more than others”...


4 posted on 01/15/2010 8:41:50 AM PST by Haiku Guy ("I don't give them Hell / I tell the truth about them / And they think it's Hell" -- Harry Truman)
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To: goldstategop
I feel as though I'm being measured for a saddle and bridle.
5 posted on 01/15/2010 8:42:09 AM PST by oyez ( damnant quod non intelligunt)
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To: safetysign
I'm ready for an American Cromwell to lead a crowd of us to seize power by occupying the Congress and the White House, trying and beheading King Obama and Queen Pelosi.
6 posted on 01/15/2010 8:48:26 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: safetysign

A big fat wet kiss for labor unions,the public receives a noose.


7 posted on 01/15/2010 9:42:10 AM PST by Vaduz
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