Medicare Tax or Contribution

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2010/03/medicare-tax-or-contribution

ProPublica's Olga Pierce notices that, Orwellian Newspeak style, "among the 15 pages of changes to the Reconciliation Act included in the manager's amendment released over the weekend was a wee name change: references to 'Medicare tax' were deleted, and replaced with the much gentler, and voluntary-sounding, 'unearned income Medicare contribution.'" Which is worse, the tax itself or the effort to camouflage it?

by Editor  |  Mar 24, 2010 at 4:32 pm Related Topics:  Health Care, Politics, Taxes receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list