Soggy in NOLA
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In 2008, employers with employer sponsored health insurance got 131 BILLION dollars in tax breaks.
What are the largest tax expenditures?
That tax break was paid for either with taxes on employers and employees without healthcare insurance, or deficit dollars passed on to children, who didn't get a vote.
That's only relevant if we were to assume the government is entitled to 100% of what corporations make.
Equating a lower tax burden with "getting" something only works if the gubmint is entitled to everything from you from the get-go. All that is happening is the government is taking less.. that is no gift.