Great News! Obama Now Wants to Tax Your Health Benefits

Hmm, I distinctly recall him excoriating John McCain during the campaign over such a suggestion.

"For the first time in American history, he wants to tax your health benefits," Obama said in September. "Apparently, Senator McCain doesn't think it's enough that your health premiums have doubled. He thinks you should have to pay taxes on them, too."

Well, now that he basically raped our economy and nationalized a good chunk of the auto industry while we've lost well over a million jobs, he wants to tax your health benefits.

Change!

President Barack Obama is leaving the door open to taxing health care benefits, something he campaigned hard against while running for president, according to senators who met with him Tuesday.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., raised the issue with Obama during a private meeting with the president and other Democratic senators and later reported the president's position: "It's on the table. It's an option."

They quickly backtracked, but honesty, can you believe a work these people say?

I didn't think so.

Baucus wants to look at limiting — but not entirely eliminating — the tax-free status of employer-provided health benefits.

"It was not in our plan, it was not in our budget," White House budget director Peter Orszag said earlier Tuesday. "We are saying we want the legislative process to play out, and that's all we have to say on that right now."

Obama is leaving the details of crafting a health care bill to Congress and used Tuesday's meeting to urge senators to swift action.

Swift action. In other words, before anyone realizes a freight train has just run them over.

We are in deep, folks. If this doesn't wake up the suckers who voted for Obama, nothing will.