Those silly lugs in Washington have me laughing again. Their latest attempt at scraping enough money together to pay for socialized medicine calls for taxing employer-provided insurance benefits, which isn't new.... But here's the kicker.... Unions are exempt!
That is, any employment benefit gained by collective bargaining will not be taxed -- although benefits to every independent, individual employee will be taxed -- to pay for socialized medicine. The UAW, the teachers' unions, the postal workers, the SEIU, etc. will all be immune from carrying their share of the rather staggering tax burden of socialized medicine.
Oh, those zany legislators! Just have to chuckle.
Picture this:
Late Sunday night. Pazzo Pelosi, Christopher Dudd, Barney Fudd, et. al., weary and exhausted in a conference room somewhere deep within the bowels of the Capitol Building, surrounded by wads of paper -- discarded ideas and calculator tapes -- empty Starbuck's cups, a couple pizza boxes stuffed in the trash can.... The men are in shirt sleeves, ties loosened. Pazzo has kicked off her heels and is shuffling around in bunny slippers. They all have red-rimmed eyes and find themselves continually stifling a yawn. They've been at it all weekend, trying to find the money to pay for socialized medicine. Too bad Geithner won't let them see the Fed's books.... Such a selfish snob....
Suddenly Pazzo jumps up, waving her hands around in those characteristic and vaguely menacing judo chop gestures: "By Jove! I think I've got it! We'll simply tax all the Republicans for this hare-brained scheme, then we won't lose our Democrat voter base!"
"Wew, I agwee that's the wesult we aww want, but how weow we do that?" Barney Fudd asks, genuinely dismayed.
A sly glimmer lights up Dudd's face like a jack'o'lantern. "I get it," he says, "So devilishly simple. How could we fail to see it until now? We'll make the unions exempt from the tax!"
Pazzo exchanges her bunny slippers for the ruby shoes, the men straighten their ties, then they all link arms and skip down the dimly-lit corridors of the Capitol Building, gaily singing, "We'll stick it to the red states, those grim Republican stiffs! ... Follow the Deficit Road! Follow the Deficit Road! Follow the, follow the, follow the, follow the, follow the Deficit Road!"
Fudd, of course, leads these efforts, his munchkin impression being unparallelled.
Oh, those crazy politicians. They never fail to bring a smile to my face.
Let's thank the Wiz they live in Oz and not the USA.
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