[Jean S]

I was alerted to this today. These are quite the creative taxes. Can we stop them before 1/13?

[morphing libertarian]

3.7% tax on real state sales if you have AGI over 200,000 or $250,000 for couples.

[thinden]

be back later

[luv2ski]

This list is terrifying. I cannot even begin to imagine the damage this would do to our already shaky economy.

[PMAS]

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[Balding_Eagle]

They forgot the 2.3% tax on GROSS receipts of manufacturers of medical devices. Begins January 1, 2013.

That’s huge, because it’s on the GROSS sales, not net profits. It’s caused many a medical device company to stop any and all expansion plans.

The big cost isn’t even the 2.3%, as big as that is, it’s the fact that people who need pacemakers etc. might not get them, because fewer manufacturers are going to be making them.

Makes me doubt the veracity of the rest of the list.

[ridesthemiles]

Interesting that executives running a health insurance company are limited to a salary of $500,000 and the CEO of Sesame Street- a program which runs for a very short time once a week on PBS gets paid over $684,000.

I truly believe that any health company exec works far harder than the guy who is the CEO of Sesame Street!!!

[Delta 21]

...and we had to pass this thing to see all this??!!??

There is more than the “O” to blame for this Clusterf%#*!!