The political knifes are drawn

[glatt]

So they are extending everyone's tax cuts, the biggest cuts going to the richest.

And at the same time, they have this bipartisan commission talking about where they can tighten the old belt in other places, and one of the biggest places they are looking at is to tax employer provided benefits. So the poor working slob like me is going to continue to get my tax cut (Yay!) but they are talking about offsetting that by taxing my benefits. (Boo!) Now the rich dude is also going to have his benefits taxed, but his benefits are the same size as mine, so his increase in taxes are going to be tiny compared to the enormous tax cut he's getting.

Once again, it's playing out that rich dudes are getting all the breaks. I'm not surprised. The Republicans are back in town.