Taxpayers To Help Pay Congressional Obamacare Tab

[gun sane]

It was a mighty close call. Lawmakers and their aides were on the hook for entering the Obamacare health exchanges and seeing their premiums soar several thousand dollars like the rest of us peons. But now the deal is made to let us pay a huge chunk of their tab as well.

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/capitol-hill-obamacare-crisis-solved-95100.html?hp=t1

Edited August 2, 2013 by gun sane

[jcoosi]

I was under the assumption we already pay for the jackasses anyway. Passing legislation without reading it has consequences so you made your nest and shat in it. So deal with it.

Edited August 2, 2013 by jcoosi

[Guest nra37922]

I was under the assumption we already pay for the jackasses anyway. Passing legislation without reading it has consequences so you made your nest and shat in it. So deal with it.

Well they did deal with it by shafting us...

[RobertNashville]

This seems like a  "well duh" sort of thing...of course taxpayers are going to pay for it...taxpayers pay for EVERYTHING the government does; mostly directly; sometimes indirectly but they always pay because there is no one else to pay. Government has no money of its own.

[gun sane]

Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote an amendment specifically including Congress and its aides to be subject to the same conditions as everyone else.  Obama worked around Congress to alter the law.  This is not the usual exemption that has been approved in the past.  This is a special interest, elitist Washington D.C. perk, given to those that consider themselves the best and the brightest in the country.  The aides make on an average $75,000/yr but it would be an extreme hardship for them to pay the same proportionate rate for Obamacare that the schlubs outside the D.C. beltway have to pony up.  Do you suppose Dear Leader is throwing in the class warfare towel and letting the rich and powerful win?  :surrender:

[Guest Bonedaddy]

I expected nothin' less from the Idiot Supremes.

[Guest Bonedaddy]

Though, I'm startin' to think that term is better applied to us.