Apparently, Max Baucus, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the New Wizard* of ObamaCare has decided that it is bad form to tax condoms, but really good form to tax insulin pumps and hearing aids and power wheelchairs.<\/p>\n
Worried about perceptions that ObamaCare will tax the middle class (it still will, and we will be telling you we told you so for decades), Baucus seemingly decided to exempt consumer items of $100 or less from his previously proposed tax on medical devices.<\/p>\n
There are no middle-class people who are deaf, diabetic and lame?\u00a0 What did they do to get screwed?<\/p>\n
Do these people really think we are that stupid?\u00a0 Do they think that by applying the tax to the medical device companies, you won\u2019t know it\u2019s going to be passed to you?\u00a0 There\u2019s no one that stupid.\u00a0 Plenty of people docile enough to let it happen, but not so stupid as to not understand this.<\/p>\n
*Note that we are using Wizard as a coded expletive rather than Imperial Wizard, which is a better coded expletive, in this context, but would be mischaracterized and get us charged with saying bad stuff and inciting violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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