Don't tax me bro!

Unions Rally to Oppose a Tax on Health Insurance

When millions of blue-collar workers were leaning toward John McCain during the 2008 campaign, labor unions moved many of them into Barack Obama’s column by repeatedly hammering one theme: Mr. McCain wanted to tax their health benefits.

An A.F.L.-C.I.O. ad warned union members that it believed voting for Senator John McCain in 2008 would be a mistake.

But now labor leaders are fuming that President Obama has endorsed a tax on high-priced, employer-sponsored health insurance policies as a way to help cover the cost of health care reform. And as Senate and House leaders seek to negotiate a final health care bill, unions are pushing mightily to have that tax dropped from the legislation. Or at the very least, they want the price threshold raised so that the tax would affect fewer workers.

In other words, the union leaders are all for shifting the cost off health care to tax payers, just not their tax payers.  Well common sense alone is enough to know that we cannot extend health care to 20, 30, 40 (whatever number we are currently up or down to) million people and that only the "rich" will bear the burden of paying for it.  There simply aren't that many rich people around. 

Unions are among the biggest pushers of ObamaCare.  If they want it they should be willing to pay for it.

What Does Breitbart Have Up His Sleave?

Via Memeorandum:

Breitbart Promises New Bombshell from “Left Field” according to Patterico's Pontification. If the "ACORN tapes" have shown anything, it is that Breitbart is the go to guy when it comes to exposing corruption. Not to downplay Breitbart's tremendous work, but the MSM's "see no evil, hear no evil" attitude towards the Obama administration and its buddies at ACORN, has pushed Breitbart to the forefront.

Patterico's take:

If you’re trying to figure out what the next big shoe to drop might be, I
suggest that you consider re-reading his column to see what he identified as the
second story that demonstrates the media’s complicity with the Democrat party.
Namely, the NEA...

Well the NEA scandal certainly has been ignored by the MSM. The White House participating in a teleconference with the NEA where it promises funding, i.e., taxpayer money, in return for favorable treatment certainly would be scandalous in any other administration. In this administration it strikes me as right in line with the decades old, Chicago way, corruption.

However, I would not be surprised if the next bombshell is even bigger than ACORN, which would make it far bigger than the NEA. So I'll throw in my two cents, or in this case , two words: Big Labor. Either way, we will all know next week.