Dubya calls for new taxes on working people

Nice work, Dubster. I didn't see the State of the Union last night (I was at my writing group), but I woke up this morning to learn that Bush is an even BIGGER enemy of working people then I thought. He's proposing to TAX working people on the health insurance they receive from their employers, if the employer pays over a certain level. So people whose employers do the right thing and buy them quality health insurance will get a tax penalty. As I said, nice work.

I'm all for creating a tax deduction for people to buy their own health insurance. In fact, I think all healthcare costs should be tax deductible. But you don't pay for that new deduction by penalizing workers for having good, responsible employers! How about just rolling back a small fraction of the billions of dollars of tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires that were instituted earlier in the administration?

But that would mean he would actually be helping working people. And he'd hate to do that.