Labor's $60 Billion Payoff

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Author(s) The Wall Street Journal editorial board
Source The Wall Street Journal
Date January 16, 2010
URL http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703657604575004992410621692.html
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Quotes-start.png "So emerging from their backrooms, Democrats have agreed to extend a special exemption from the Cadillac tax to any health plan that is part of a collective-bargaining agreement, plus state and local workers, many of whom are unionized. Everyone else with a higher-end plan will start to be taxed in 2013, but union members will get a free pass until 2018. Ponder that one for a moment. Two workers who are identical in every respect—wages, job, health plan—will be treated differently by the tax system, based solely on union membership." Quotes-end.png


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