My New Year Came In With A Good Cadillac Tax Obamacare Debate

[egbertowillies]

I went to a big New Year’s Eve party at a good friend’s home in Kingwood, Texas. My wife took off early to help my friend setup. My daughter and I got there a couple of hours late as I finished up some end of year tax stuff.

When I got to the party a friend ran up to me and said, “You sure told them this time.” Kingwood Texas is a very Conservative part of Harris County (Houston). Fox News is the station of choice in every business unless one complains. We have a concerted effort in this area demanding that they change the channel and respect the fact that Progressives are a substantial part of this community.

My op-ed was to drop in last week’s Kingwood Observer to coincide with the December 23rd Obamacare deadline for those who wanted coverage on January 1st. Instead they printed Senator John Cornyn’s bucket of lies and deception.

The op-ed was a modification of this blog post I wrote a few weeks back. It was modified a small bit to speak to the sensibilities of those in this area.

One of the guests at the party took exception to the article. He was fuming about the Cadillac Tax. He decided to engage me. For those who follow my blog, you know that I love a healthy civil debate with the expectation of either changing someone’s mind or having my own mind changed. I do not believe in debating for the sake of debating to prove some prowess of debating skills or the language.

http://egbertowillies.com/2014/01/01/cadillac-tax-obamacare/

[freshwest]

1. Great to have truly changed a mind by explaining the justice of the matter. Kudos, egw. n/t

[TexasTowelie]

2. A great blog.

At least you were able to make the point that those who reap the benefits of our convoluted system should also be willing to make minor sacrifices if they wish to retain both the benefits and the system.

What does surprise me though is that the executive did not start harping over the increase in the Medicare tax from 1.45% to 2.35% for the amount that exceeds $200,000 ($250K joint filers)? Perhaps the executive realized that he wouldn't get any sympathy for his plight?

[Kahuna]

3. Nice blog site.