Bettering our society

The news of the past few days has proven that Congress and this administration are so far out of touch with the vast majority of Americans that they would need to get in touch with everyone in order to get any more out of touch. Let's take a look at a few of the ways that they've decided to better our society.

In order to pay for health care for the masses they are contemplating taxing the health care benefits of those of us who actually have jobs and health care. Never mind the fact that health care has been a pre-tax deduction ever since I have been working but now we want to tax those who are already carrying the load even more to pay for other's health care. I realize that we already do pay for this, to some extent, with increased costs at hospitals but in order to make it fair to everyone we will tax those who are paying the freight even more.

Then we have the new CAFE standards that our friends in the White house are proposing. It is estimated that this will raise the cost of a new car or truck by as much as $1,300.00 per vehicle. This is another concept to make things fair, after all if it is good enough for California it should be good enough for all of us.

Lastly we have the ever popular Cap and Trade policy that is another guaranteed tax on everyone starting at the lowest income level and going from there. The CBO estimates that this will hit the lowest income households approximately 3.3%, the middle quintiles between 2.7% - 2.9% and the highest income quintile 1.7%. It seems that the hardest hit groups would be the 95% of Americans that the President is constantly saying that he is least willing to add taxes on.

It could just be me but I'm pretty sure that the idiots in Washington need to start facing the same taxes that they lay on everyone else. They constantly write laws that they are immune from, starting with taxes, and then claim that they don't understand why we are getting tired of them. Personally I think it is time for a wake-up call. Contact your reps and tell them that it is time for the government to live within it's means and to leave our wallets the hell alone.

ETA: Pushing more taxes on the people in a time of recession has been tried in the past. The last time round brought us the great depression. Maybe those on capital hill need to read more history.