Obama now supports “the largest middle-class tax increase in history” Taxing health care benefits…

By PUMA Pundit on March 15, 2009

Candidate Obama: McCain is a bad man, he wants to punish workers by taxing their health care benefits.

President Obama: I have a great idea, how about we go about taxing Health Care Benefits

The sheer audacity. Thankfully, none other than the NYT is calling him out on his hypocricy… NYT

The proposal is politically problematic for President Obama, however, since it is similar to one he denounced in the presidential campaign as “the largest middle-class tax increase in history.” Most Americans with insurance get it from their employers, and taxing workers for the benefit is opposed by union leaders and some businesses.

Obama - Liar

In television advertisements last fall, Mr. Obama criticized his Republican rival for the presidency, Senator John McCain of Arizona, for proposing to tax all employer-provided health benefits. The benefits have long been tax-free, regardless of how generous they are or how much an employee earns. The advertisements did not point out that Mr. McCain, in exchange, wanted to give all families a tax credit to subsidize the purchase of coverage.

Here is one of the ads he ran on this very subject…