During the presidential campaign of 2008, John McCain, the straight shooter, said he’d consider taxing health benefits in order to pay for expanding health coverage to everyone else. It was one of the deciding factors in deciding the race. Obama jumped all over McCain on the issue, and of course, promied everyone his coverage would be free. He would never tax health benefits. Think I’m exaggerating a bit? Let’s look and see at a few examples:
Now, after being elected, Obama is open to taxing health care benefits:
I’m waiting for all those groups that so enthusiastically trashed McCain for pondering the idea to do exactly the same to Obama. Come on you unions and firefighters, I double-dog dare ya to stand by your word.
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