AP: “It’s Not Just Millionaires Who’d Pay More” Under Obama’s Jobs Plan, Ordinary Americans Hit With $130 Billion In New Gov’t Fees…
You think the ignorant saps who are buying into his class warfare shtick have any idea they’re about to get socked with fees up the wazoo?
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not just millionaires who’d pay more under President Barack Obama’s latest plan to combat the deficit.
Air travelers, federal workers, military retirees, wealthier Medicare beneficiaries and people taking out new mortgages are among those who would pay more than $130 billion in government revenues raised through new or increased fees.
Airline passengers would see their federal security fees double from $5 to $10 for a nonstop round-trip flight and triple to $15 by 2017, raising $25 billion over the coming decade. Federal workers would face an additional 1.2 percentage point deduction from their paychecks to contribute $21 billion more for their pensions over the same period. Military retirees would pay a $200 fee upon turning 65 to have the government pay their out-of-pocket Medicare expenses. They’d also pay more for non-generic prescription drugs.
And it’ll cost corporate jet owners a new $100 fee for each flight.
The fees aren’t taxes. They’re charged to people who use government services or receive benefits such as taxpayer-subsidized health care, and they typically defray the government’s cost of providing a service. The fee on corporate jets and other private passenger planes, for example, would raise about $1 billion a year to help finance the cost of air traffic control. Recreational flyers won’t have to pay.
Many of Obama’s proposals are retreads from earlier budget proposals, including those submitted by his predecessors. Most have been rejected year after year. Some ideas, like requiring wealthier veterans to pay more for their health care, stir up opposition from powerful interest groups. Others, like the bigger security fee for flyers, seem too close to a ticket tax increase.
HT: Zcat
Posted by ZIP on Monday, September 19, 2011, at 9:06 pm | 
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The obama version of ROBIN HOOD steal from the rich and poor and give it to ACORN
Not only that but apparently there’s things in the bill to put an end to state sovereignty – text is shown not just reported.
http://trevorloudon.com/2011/09/obama%E2%80%99s-jobs-bill-ends-state-sovereignty-%E2%80%93-wake-up-governors/
He really wants to impoverish us all.
Well, well, well, now. Have to pass that danged Bill to see what’s in it! Instant replay – been there/done that/don’t ever want to do it again….
Is this reject trying to be clever again?
this dogs in the corner with his tail between his legs and teeth showing
he has no desire for prosperity, only equality..
The federal government has an obesity problem and its only fair it go on a diet and stop eating the American people out of house and home.
What is it with this guy and corperate jets. Hes obsessed like a mental patient with them.
Good link Teacake…thanks.
Politicians in general want your money, not just the democrats or Obama. Don’t kid yourself on that account. The governments money always came from the public one way or another way. I am sure the government would mention their financial problems as an excuse.
“The fees aren’t taxes.”
Any fee paid to government is a tax. It goes into government coffers to be used by government for some service or thing.
Parking meter, state park use fee, vehicle registrations…it’s a tax.
I don’t have a general issue when it comes to paying for a service or product, however, in the case of government, when I add everything up, I see 50% or more of my income going to some tax or fee. That’s obscene.
I wonder if Obama will hand on exemptions to his billionaire friends and large campaign donors, just like he did with ObamaCare?
One termer….
Listen to obama hear the sound ofa cash regester(Ka-Ching)and look for the $$$$$$ in his eyes
A quote from the late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931–2005: “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
@Greg
Very Good!