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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: Taxing medical benefits ... NOT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.184603.16096@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:46:03 GMT
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- John Switzer (jrs@netcom.com) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec19.195620.6688@seq.uncwil.edu> session@seq.uncwil.edu (Zac
- k 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."
- :
- : Another example of Clinton talking out of both sides of his mouth, because
- : Friday's Wall Street Journal quotes Clinton as saying he is considering endin
- g
- : the tax exemption on at least part of a company's health care costs. End of
- : exemption translates into more taxes being paid and thus higher taxes. This
- : translates into a defacto tax on a person's benefits that are above the
- : basic minimum which Clinton and his advisers have yet to settle on.
- : --
- : John Switzer | "What we have here is a failure to
- : | masticate."
- : Compuserve: 74076,1250 | -- Dr. Clayton "Firebrand" Forrester, after
- : Internet: jrs@netcom.com | TV's Frank is unable to eat his 13th turkey.
-
- Another example of a consevative putting the worst spin possible on what
- Clinton says. Removing tax exemptions for health care costs is a tax increase
- on businesses not an increase on middle class tax payers. Thus, the statement
- by Clinton and the statement by Judy Feder do not contradict each other.
- --
- Mike McAngus | As if I needed Another time consuming hobby.
- (mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org) |
- The Truth is still the Truth | This Post exploits illiterates.
- Even if you choose to ignore it. |
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