Here's a poll of purple-state (and Harry Reid's home state) Nevada that suggests the tax hikes needed to pay for Obamacare could doom it. Incidentally, the 77 percent of Nevadans who think Obamacare (or Baucus-care) will require tax increases are right. The Baucus bill has $500 billion of tax increases in it--to say nothing of the unscored-by-CBO (because they come out of citizens' wallets, not the federal government's) insurance premium increases. (See more on the Baucus bill in last week's and this week's editorials, as well as in Michael Barone's article in today's Washington Examiner.)
William Kristol
Obamacare Vulnerable on Taxes (Cont.)
Here's a poll of purple-state (and Harry Reid's home state) Nevada that suggests the tax hikes needed to pay for Obamacare could doom it. Incidentally, the 77 percent of Nevadans who think Obamacare (or Baucus-care) will require tax increases are right. The Baucus bill has $500 billion of tax…
William Kristol · October 11, 2009
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