If you make less than $250,000 a year -- a lot less, running from
$249,999 all the way down to unemployment -- you would face a
$750 a year tax for simply drawing a breath. Unlike car
insurance, where one must own a car to pay car insurance, Montana
Senator Max Baucus, the Democrat who chairs the Senate Finance
Committee, is determined to tax you for, literally, having the
audacity to breathe without health insurance. Details of the
plan,
obtained by the Associated Press, show that the Baucus
Breathing Tax would go as high as $3800 for those families who
fail for whatever reason to breathe without following the Baucus
directive to get health care.
This would be a breach with President Obama's pledge that he
would never raise taxes on anyone earning under $250,000.
Word to the wise: don't hold your breath.
