Friday, January 15, 2010

Fat Union Cats have Obama in their Pocket


Hey, this is not the way a Communist Utopia is supposed to work. File under, "Some are just more equal than others." From Things Worth Reading:

UNIONS WILL DODGE OBAMA'S HEALTH TAX

By CARL CAMPANILE

Big Labor got some big love from President Obama and congressional Democrats yesterday after they agreed to exempt union workers from the whopping "Cadillac tax" on high-cost health-care plans until 2018. The sweetheart deal, hammered out behind closed doors, will save union employees at least $60 billion over the years involved, while others won't be as lucky -- they'll have to cough up almost $90 billion. The 40 percent excise tax on what have come to be called...