From last night’s Hannity:
Well, look, he’s already raised taxes on people making less than $250,000 a year. He signed into law a cigarette tax hike which obviously is not — it was not written in such a way that only people who make $250,000 will pay higher taxes.
And his energy bill, his energy tax, the cap-and-trade energy tax, hit anybody who owns a light switch. So already they’ve tossed that thing out the window — taxing people who made less than $250,000 a year.
I think Sunday we heard honestly from both Summers and Geithner that they wanted to have these on the table. We heard Mr. Gibbs come out today and dismiss the secretary of the Treasury and the National Economic Council director, but I frankly tend to think they’ve got a better idea what policies they might be pushing behind the scenes.
In fact, you know what?…
In the health-care bill they’ve got four taxes that hit people below $250,000 a year–in the House markup, and we haven’t heard one peep from the administration about opposing these. One of them is a tax on individuals with acceptable healthcare coverage.
That’s a 2.5 percent [tax] that starts on people who make $93,000 a year or families who make as little as $18,700 a year. They got a new employer mandate which is an 8 percent tax on employers. That’s going to be paid by working people.
They have a provision that disallows the distribution of — from HSAs, the health savings accounts or flexible savings account — for over-the-counter drugs. It’s estimated to cost people $8 billion in additional taxes and finally, they’ve got a — what’s called a comparative research tax, $2 billion, and will be levied on health insurance policies, again, which will be paid for by people who make less than $250,000 a year.
That’s what they got in their own health-care bill.






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