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In a sweetheart deal truck behind closed doors -- you know, during that transparent process being covered by No-SeeSpan -- unions will receive a special dispensation from health care taxes which the rest of us will have to pay. The New York Post's Carl Campanile reports on the story, writing:
[The deal] 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 "Cadillac" health-care plans would exempt collective-bargaining contracts covering government employees and other union members until Jan. 1, 2018.
Moreover, Campanile tells us, "the value of [union] dental and vision plans would be exempt from the tax even after the deal expires in eight years ..."
It gets even more invidious, though. While the 40-percent tax will be levied on plans worth $8,900 or more for individuals and $24,000 or more for families, "[t]he threshold will be even higher for certain plans with many older workers and women -- a move to benefit unions with a high proportion of female membership ... ," wrote Campanile.
Ah, the change of Obama's utopia: from each according to his political means, to each according to the party's political needs.
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