Unions get their Obama payoff

The country is up in arms about the ObamaCare plan going through Congress. In the past week, another move is only going to stoke the fires among those of us who’ve figured out the folly going on in Washington. One aspect of bill is that so-called “Cadillac” health care plans will be taxed at 40 percent. That is bad enough, penalizing people for taking out comprehensive health care packages. If you’re a union member, though, you get to skate by – they’re exempted.

Not all that surprising a liberal is willing to sell out everyone else for his paymasters. If the bill is signed into law, unions will get about a $60 billion tax break over eight years. The rest of us will have to cough up $90 billion in taxes. And forget about dental and vision insurance – those will be exempt forever.

Doesn’t hardly seem fair, does it? Democrats like to paint Republicans as discriminatory, but this is another example that it’s the liberals themselves that choose who benefits and who doesn’t. Of course, they’re just “dancing with the girl what brung ‘em,” as the saying goes. The amount of money given by unions to Obama and Democrats in the 2008 cycle is simply staggering. Obama got $526,597, the Democratic National Committee received $661,586, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee brought in $1,086,820, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee socked away $1,057,700. That’s a lot of “change.”

Just how out of touch can these people be? It seems that Washington liberals believe they can go about their business, giving sweetheart deals to their backers while taxing the pants off middle-class families and small businesses to pay for it.

The movement of this health care plan has been bad from the get-go. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made giveaways, with taxpayer dollars, to Sens. Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson to get them to vote for the bill. Then instead of reconciling the House and Senate bills in conference committee, as is the usual process, Democrats chose to negotiate the changes among top leadership behind closed doors. Obama campaigned saying he would have all the health care debates and negotiations televised on C-SPAN. That didn’t even come close to happening.

And now we have another back-room deal, a deal cut between Washington Democrats and Big Labor to save union fat cats a ton of money while giving the shaft to the majority of Americans – non-union workers.