The hits just keep on coming … and not in a Beatles kinda way, either. Although the tax man is coming. Again.
In a ham-handed attempt to pick up the tab for health care reform, the Senate Finance Committee just suggested another tax, this time on, ahem, health care.
Now, while the irony (or is it absurdity?) is not lost on me, I can't help but wonder what they're putting in the water up there in the District.
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Oh, and it gets better. Not only does the committee want to levy a new tax on employer-paid health care, they want to come up with a new "sin" tax, as well. Seems they want to tax any drinks sweetened with sugar or high-fructose corn syrup. The Kool-Aid man referred all questions to Mrs. Butterworth. (And, yeah, I know it's not that kind of syrup, but you try telling my son not to drink it.)
Jokes aside, the worst trial balloon of the bunch, though, is the proposed new limits or outright elimination of flexible savings accounts, because, you know, we can't have the private sector running around providing real solutions.
Committee Chairman Max Baucus and his gang of 12 are meeting today. And I'll bet you a copay we haven't heard the last great idea from this bunch.
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