Obama tax on work cell phones?

June 15, 2009 by Steven Ting  
Filed under Business, Economy, General

It came out over the weekend that the IRS and the Obama administration are looking to tax the use of work cell phones as a fringe benefit.  This is after all of the talk of Obama wanting to tax health benefits that are paid by employers.  What happened to Obama’s promise to not increase taxes for those of us making less than $250,000 a year?  Obama tells us another lie, and the people keep buying his crap.

We have to look further into the issue.  Why is Obama wanting all of these taxes?  It’s not really a matter of want.  Obama actually needs these taxes.  He needs these taxes if he is going to fund his government run health care program.  All of the sheeple out there think this Obama health care is going to be great.  They think it’s going to be free or less expensive.  While you may not pay money when you visit the doctor, they’re paying for it with higher taxes.  That’s the only way things like this work.

While I generally dislike taxes, this type of tax would be more regressive than progressive, affecting those that make less money.  As Stacey Higginbotham puts it, “Cell phones are no longer the status symbols of the privileged few who work in international finance or software sales.”

Keep your health plan, keep your bailouts, and keep your hands out of my pocketbook.

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