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RUSH: It\u2019s a Rasmussen poll — 32% would pay higher taxes to provide health insurance for all. Well, good! Let\u2019s go find these 32% and raise their taxes, then. Find out who they are. That should about cover the problem. ‘Thirty-two percent of American adults say they would be willing to pay higher taxes so that health insurance could be provided for all Americans.\u2019 In fact, let\u2019s go grab audio sound bites one and two here. This is last week, last Wednesday on this program I made this prediction.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: There\u2019s no way that these health benefits are not going to be taxed one way or a couple of ways. There\u2019s no way. They\u2019re going to be taxed as income to you, imputed income to you, or they\u2019re gonna eliminate the tax deductibility or maybe a combination of both. It\u2019s too great a source of money, and they don\u2019t have any. And they want national health care. And they\u2019re going to tell everybody, ‘Only the rich are going to be paying this tax anyway, not you,\u2019 as they lie to you again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So yesterday on CNN\u2019s State of the Union, the host John King talking to the budget director for Obama, Peter Orszag, one of the many Ivy League nerds and eggheads that populate his administration. John King says, ‘On the table in Congress: taxing the health insurance benefits that workers get — I get from my company, many people get from their company — saying if you\u2019re at a certain income level, we\u2019re gonna tax those benefits. The administration has said ‘not our idea,\u2019 but you haven\u2019t said ‘no way,\u2019 either.\u2019<\/p>\n

ORSZAG: Yeah, it was not in the president\u2019s uhhh campaign plan. It wasn\u2019t in our budget. Clearly there are some members of Congress who are putting it on the table; we\u2019re going to have to let this play out. There are lots of ideas that are being put on the table and that\u2019s exactly how it should be.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well! Notice he\u2019s not denying it. He\u2019s just saying, ‘It wasn\u2019t our idea.\u2019 BS. Been there. A Democrat\u2019s a Democrat! I don\u2019t care if the Democrat\u2019s in the White House or the House of Representatives or the Senate, it\u2019s a Democrat idea: raise everybody\u2019s taxes. They\u2019re going to have to, folks. That\u2019s what all of this talk last week about how it\u2019s ‘unsustainable\u2019 to spend money and borrow money this way is all about. It\u2019s all about raising taxes. There you have it. There you have it! ‘Well, it wasn\u2019t our idea, don\u2019t blame us. But, Congress put it out there; and since Congress put it out there, we\u2019re going to have to consider it. Oh, tie our hands! Tie our hands and put on the shackles. Yes, we\u2019re going to have figure it out.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: It\u2019s a Rasmussen poll — 32% would pay higher taxes to provide health insurance for all. Well, good! Let\u2019s go find these 32% and raise their taxes, then. Find out who they are. 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