Taxing “Cadillac” health plans in order to pay for universal healthcare? What does that sound like? Let’s hope this proposal does not pass.
Supporters claim that the tax will cause employers to hunt for cheaper plans in order to avoid the tax, forcing insurers to lower their prices. Critics claim that this will lead to rising costs for employers, and by extension, families and individuals.
But wait, there’s more!
Nancy Pelosi offered up an alternative, which would be to tax insurers’ “windfall profits”. Genius! Let’s take away the incentives for running a successful business to pay for healthcare for everyone.
The Politico is reporting that there was a cash dump into the fund-raising accounts of moderate Democrats around the time of the Cap and Trade vote on June 26.
The vote was close: 219-212.
Now, its not possible to determine whether the cash was to persuade those on the fence, or a last minute money dump before the June 30th deadline.
Surrounding Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Mark Sanford, and Ed Sullivan, it might be hard to remember that THERE IS A VOTE ON THE LARGEST TAX INCREASE EVER on the floor today…
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, congress, in order to ram through the 1,201 page bill, they have decided to vote today.
This is ridiculous. How are they expected to read the bill? To put it in perspective, they are asking the other representatives to read Atlas Shrugged in one day…and UNDERSTAND IT!
Now, an organization called Let Freedom Ring has made a pledge card that asks congresspeople to vote on the healthcare bill, only after they have personally read it and it has been made available to the people.
And as a quick asside, two people have signed the pledge… Jim Demint and James Inhofe…
UPDATE: Greenpeace is against Cap and Trade? Who knew? So, it seems that the Congress is trying to put the screws to the economy for the sake of expansion of government…
UPDATE: They are really trying to pass a bill with a placeholder? It’s a circus.
Rangel supports horse-trading on House floor…
Carl Levin says C&T is moral imperative…
John Larson invokes the name of T. Boone Pickens…Which is odd…because T. Boone’s Prop 10 was voted down in California in 2008…
And someone needs to tell him to stop yelling…
Is anyone else worried about all these Democrats invoking the ideas of “terrorism” and 9/11 while trying to get votes for C&T?
The Cap and Trade bill costs $700 Million a page!
UPDATE: Representatives caught horse-trading…Barton said it best, “At least its transparent…”
UPDATE: Gohmert: “Where is a physical copy [of the 300 page amendment?]”
–silence–
That silence is so telling.
Apparently, they can’t find a physical copy of the 300 page amendment…
And also, there isn’t a rule that requires a physical copy to vote…or, if there is, the important sounding person at the big podium isn’t aware of one…
Barton: “If a bill for which there is no copy were to actually pass House, could bill be sent to Senate having no copy?”
Apparently there isn’t a copy…anywhere…even on the desk…
Will they recess to form a search party to find the 300 page amendment? Barton requested a short recess to find the official copy…
Markey says no.
It’s a circus…
Jason Chaffetz, Representative from Utah, said on tweeted, “Dems still don’t have a final finished hard copy of bill, 1,500 pages now. And we are supposed to vote on this? Nobody has read it in full.”
Representative Bilbray: “The biggest threat to environment is the smoke coming from backroom deals”
A representative wished to have a moment of silence for those who will lose their jobs had his request objected to…
UPDATE: Well, John Boehner is going to fillabuster! He is going to read every page of the 300 page amendment…
Yes, folks. According to Yahoo News, Tim Geithner wants to impose new guidelines for publicly traded companies to better match pay with long-term performance.
He said that he does not want to put caps on the pay…but that sounds like what they’re going to do…but just call it something else.
What gets me about this is how they support unions and a minimum wage…in short, not being paid by your performance, while wanting that for executives…
Folks, after the jump, there is an email I sent to the Pennsylvania branch of ACORN. After no response to this email, I sent it to every ACORN email I could find. I still have not received a response.
The email was regarding an article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review quoting Ian Phillips saying there was no quota system while registering voters, now, those of you who have been following the ACORN story here on the Report, you know that this is untrue, and that the Project Vote Training manual says to
“set clear numerical hourly expectations, retrain once, and then fire.”
I post this email with a request of you:
Would you please email this email to every ACORN email address you can find? Demand the truth. Ladies and gentlemen, this is your duty. It is your duty to not let these Chicago thugs get away with this racket any longer.
Please read, then copy, then send the email to every ACORN email address you can find.–I’m hoping that they cannot ignore this email if it got the proper volume.
There are two hundred-ish companies registered at the address-1024 Elysian Fields Ave–of the business Citizens Consulting (by the way, I’m going to call this company tomorrow):
Here is a picture of the building at the address…According to Glenn Beck.
Also, on the left, it gives a list of businesses…the ones that are featured…ACORN and the Affiliated Media Foundation?.
And…another organization that is at that address…the SEIU. SEIU local 100 is located at the same address as ACORN, the Affiliated Media Foundation, and other businesses…
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