What happens when you’re elected on promises of lower taxes and universal health care?
July 8th, 2009 by Rightwing Czar at 4:17 pmAnswer: You end up proposing policies that are overwhelmingly rejected by the people who elected you:
Senate negotiators are searching for new ways to pay for an overhaul of the U.S. health insurance system after recent polls showed many Americans oppose funding it through taxes on employer-provided health insurance, a key senator said Tuesday.
A recent New York Times/CBS News poll showed only 20 percent of respondents support the tax and a Washington Post/ABC News poll found 70 percent opposed it. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll found 54 percent of respondents oppose the new tax.
When Obama was on the campaign trail he lambasted McCain for suggesting that employer health benefits should be taxed. When he was sworn in as President he soon realized that promising government-run health care + lower taxes doesn’t make much sense because for the government to run anything it needs money to do it – which means more taxes. Suddenly Obama started singing a different tune saying that he was “evolving” when it came to taxing employer-based health benefits.
Well you know what, when you campaign promising lower taxes and blast John McCain for suggesting we tax health care benefits, most people aren’t going to be thrilled about the idea.
Obama was one of the most disingenuious candidates for President I’ve seen, and now he’ll have to deal with the consequences.