Originally Posted by
getalife123
There is a solution to this problem but involves working with our congressional delegation. Here is the simple solution. Tax benefits as income! here is how it works. If your benefit package is $40,000 ( health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, dental, vision fully paid retirement,etc) then the federal tax would be $10,000 per year more. Think about this, minimum wage employees usually have no benefits and would pay no extra taxes. Some people have to pay a portion of their cost of their benefits and their taxes would be reduced by that cost. For the people that pay for their healthcare cost entirely out of their own pocket they would not have to pay anything more. Why should the fat cats who have a large portion of their total income hidden in benefits not have to pay for those benefits? Why should the people that least afford to pay (minimium wage employees) have to carry these costs when in fact the better the healthcare coverage the more the employer has to PAY. If this happened we could lower the effected tax rate for everybody. I'll bet that the the people with the outrageous health plans would be begging to either reduce the plan or get lower cost plans.