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- From: harryo@cbnewse.cb.att.com (harold.r.holm)
- Subject: Re: Taxing medical benefits ... NOT
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:36:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.023649.2465@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- Summary: Yeah?? Well, we'll be watching...and *waiting* just in case
- References: <1992Dec19.195620.6688@seq.uncwil.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec19.195620.6688@seq.uncwil.edu>, session@seq.uncwil.edu (Zack C. Sessions) writes:
- >
- > Ted Krueger posted a few days ago a comment concerning a New York Times
- > article he saw in his local paper. According to Krueger the story said
- > that "the Democrats" were planning on "taxing health benefits" thus
- > actually increasing taxes on the middle class, something Clinton has
- > promised to avoid at all possible cost. Well, looks like he spoke too
- > soon.
- >
- > In my local paper (which is owned by the NYT) today there was a story
- > which directly contradicts these assertions. The headline was "Transition
- > aide says Clinton won't put tax on medical benefits". In the story, Judy
- > Feder, who is Clinton's transition team health policy chief, said that
- > President-elect Clinton is not planning to seek new taxes on employee
- > medical benefits to pay for health care reform. She said, "That was not
- > contemplated in the campaign, and there has been no change in that."
- >
- > The story does mention that "some reformers have advocated taxing high-benefit
- > health plans".
- >
- Just a word here to let YOU Clinton PEOPLE that there will be those of
- us who are going to be watching this *real close*, 'cause if Mr. Clinton
- and the Democratic leadership/support base (i.e. YOU PEOPLE) by some
- chance *do* try any scheme like this, the American taxpayers will see to
- it that this becomes a *big* spadeful in the digging of the Democratic
- Party's grave in 1996. So don't seriously entertain any slick,
- sock-the-worker Robin-Hood ideas like this, or it will end up burning
- its perpetrators' political rear ends not all that far down the road.
- Really, it's not nice to poke a dragon that can breath fire----and
- anything like this would constitute a mighty hard poke.
-
- H.R. Holm
- *standard disclaimers, etc*
- any replies preferred via the group*
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