Continuing with the inanity of Democrats trying to hide taxes in Obamacare
Continuing on from this at the NH level with HodesCare, we have a trained economist trying to eat her words (pre-being an Obama apologist):
According to Phil Klein of the American Spectator, Christina Romer, head of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, had this to say today about the Senate’s proposed excise tax on high-end health insurance policies:
“Part of the idea of how that is going to work is precisely because it does empower consumers. It empowers each of us to have an employer-sponsored plan to call our HR office and say, ‘Would you negotiate harder? Would you think about (whether this) is the most efficient plan out there, because I don’t want my plan paying an excise tax.' So I think that’s something that is very much empowering consumers.”
Read it all here.
Again, let's review:
- Healthcare insurance started as a benefit because of Government mandated (there's that word again) wage and price freezes
- Government continues to mandate more and more "goodies" to be covered as a result of either special interest groups or "thoughtful" Politicians
- Now, Socialists are trying very hard to mandate that employer benefits into employer derived entitlements
- Democrats want to heavily tax insurance plans that individual or union-based employees have negotiated (up to 40% taxation)
- And then Christina Romer proudly thinks that this is a good thing????
Great: Government creates the problem, taxes the problem, and Romer thinks that citizens complaining about something HER BOSS's policies is creating is "empowering"????
Ms. Romer? Empowering is when citizens are able to decide for themselves what to do and NOT having to fight Gummit for their Freedom first before exercising Freedom.
Or is that the whole point of the Obama Administration - we have to fight for our Freedom first all the time?
How much more upside down can these times get when Democrats keep trying to inventing these absolute wacky re-definitions?
