While we are on the subject of labor unions, the AFL-CIO has now come up with its proposal on how to bring down our deficit. Are you ready for it? This is how we will save this nation, according to the labor unions …
No benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
No more cuts in pay or benefits for federal workers
Establish a government-run insurance program known as “the public option”
Allow prescription drugs to be re-imported
Have Medicare negotiate drug prices
Draw down troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
A financial transactions tax
A millionaires’ surtax
Tax capital gains as ordinary income
I love that tax capital gains as ordinary income thing. Labor unions want to kill the investment marketplace. Pretty much par for the course for people who are unable to exist in the workplace without being members of a mob.
Neal Boortz chronicles his 42 years of talk radio in his book "Maybe I Should Just Shut Up and Go Away" Available on line and printed from Barnes and Noble and Amazon.
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