The GOP's plan "Recon. Bill Should Not be Allowed because it would extend Social Security."

[Clio the Leo]

"The bill because it would make Social Security more solvent! Obama is trying to destroy America!" You cant make this stuff of kids.....

Republicans Plan To Invalidate Reconciliation Package Because Of Wage Increases

Last night, Congressional Democrats, under the leadership of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, accomplished what had eluded generations of leaders before them and passed comprehensive health care reform that would extend coverage to some 32 million Americans. “Tonight, we answered the call of history as so many generations of Americans have before us. When faced with crisis, we did not shrink from our challenge — we overcame it. We did not avoid our responsibility — we embraced it. We did not fear our future — we shaped it,” President Obama said last night. “This is what change looks like.”

As the Senate health care bill moves to the President’s desk, the reconciliation package enters the Senate, where Republicans are already threatening to derail it. “We will have a series of amendments on the substance of the bill that will highlight the massive Medicare cuts, the massive tax increases, and other deficiencies that we think are the reason the American people are against this bill,” Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, (R-KY) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

The most substantive and immediate GOP challenge could occur as early as Tuesday, when the Senate plans to take up the bill. Republicans will try to send the reconciliation package back to the House by citing a rule that prohibits reconciliation measures from making ‘recommendations’ about Social Security. “The Congressional Budget Office found that the bill would have an ancillary effect on Social Security’s trust funds, and GOP lawmakers will argue that such a finding constitutes a ‘recommendation.’” They’ll be arguing that since the excise tax on high cost plans “would cause some employers to reduce the cost of their workers’ insurance and pay them higher wages,” workers would have to pay higher Social Security taxes, which would also have the effect of extending the life the life of the Social Security trust fund by $53 billion.

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/03/22/point-of-order-senate/

[DJ13]

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[LiberalFighter]

2. So they want to take away any possible wage increases because it

would mean that the workers would pay more in Social Security taxes?

Who all wants to refuse receiving higher wages?