[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15115-15116]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           TAX THEM TO DEATH

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, somewhere in the dank dungeons of 
the Federal Government, the taxacrats are loose, and now they're 
working on a new tax to tax the middle class out of existence. Death by 
a thousand taxes. This time, they're talking about taxing health care 
benefits that folks get from their employers. In other words, if you 
take care of your family by having health benefits, you're going to be 
punished for doing so.

  I thought the goal was to make sure that everyone had affordable 
health care. That's what the taxacrats do tell us, but if that's the 
goal, it doesn't make any sense at all to make health care more 
expensive by taxing it. Someone is going to have to explain to me how 
raising taxes on working people is going to make things better for all 
of us.

  The taxacrats are trying to convince people that taxing health 
insurance

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won't affect very many people. Well, if that's true, experts say it's 
not going to be enough money to pay for the government-run health care 
socialized system we're going to. They also want to mandate coverage. 
That means that they'll tax anyone who doesn't buy insurance. Taxed if 
you do. Taxed if you don't. It's enough to make a person sick. That's 
not a very healthy health care plan.
  And that's just the way it is.

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