House Dems want to tax the rich for health care

[WillieW]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090710/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_health_care_overhaul

Key House Democrats decided Friday to raise taxes on the wealthy to help pay for health care legislation, capping an up-and-down week for President Barack Obama's top domestic priority. At the same time, Democratic leaders tried to quell concerns among moderate and conservative lawmakers about other elements of the bill.

"We're closer to that significant reform than at any time in recent history. That doesn't make it easy. It's hard," Obama said while traveling overseas.

Democrats on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee agreed to a new surtax that would start with households making $350,000 a year and begin in 2011, said the committee's chairman, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.

It would raise some $540 billion over 10 years, about half the cost of Obama's ambitious plan to reshape the nation's health care system and provide care to the 50 million uninsured. However, lawmakers could not provide an exact price tag of the overall bill.


Seems right to me!

[Just Saying]

1. I'm on board.

Let's do it!

[DireStrike]

2. HOUSE dems, is the headline

True, if I had to call either house dems or senate dems "just plain dems", it would be the house dems.

But it kind of affects the meaning of the story.

coughpowerlesscough

[Kerrytravelers]

3. Taxes is what we pay for civility. I, personally, am quite civilized.

I am fine paying more in taxes, and I'm not considered part of "the rich."

[safeinOhio]

4. It has been class war after Reagan

about time we shot back. I can hear the SCREAMS of socialism from the elite and the propaganda machine in high gear.