Mustang Rambles

I think by now that it is pretty obvious that the workers’ unions of America have donated sufficient dollars to buy the soul of the President, his Congress, and the Supreme Court. The deal worked out with the General Motors takeover where the unions came out way ahead of the legal, contracted, debt holders was the first blatant use of the unions’ power in Washington. The President and the Supreme Court were implicitly held up for public ridicule for their contempt of American business practices and legal history. Now, we have the chance to prove that Congress itself has been purchased by the union sweat and chicanery.

According to the Bloomberg article titled: Unions’ Health Benefits May Avoid Tax Under Proposal (Update1) , the health benefits of union workers may avoid the taxes that will be levied on health insurance provided by companies to help pay the exorbitant costs of Obama’s heath plan. Supposedly, they will fall below an artificial threshold set by Congress as delineated by Montana’s Senator Baucus, the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. While exempting the 12.4% of Americans who belong to unions, Baucus says they will only tax the “gold plated” health benefits in America, including a company in Nevada called Zappos.com which pays its’ people only $11 per hour but gives them $7,500 health benefits annually. I have never seen such a blatant or more obvious payoff to politically favorite groups.

I don’t know how any self-respecting politician can sit in the Senate or House of Representatives and be a part of such a barbarous spoils division. You can almost see the blood of innocents dripping from the pens and speeches of the Democratic Party.