The Abominable Bill

Full text here, if you’re of a mind.  Dave Budge discusses tax implications at Electric City Weblog.

From an overview at National Review Online:

…to sum up: the idea is to spend trillions even as our debt is mounting, inflict massive tax increases on a troubled economy, impose costly mandates on employers as unemployment hovers above 10%, squeeze money out of Medicare not to fix the program’s finances but to create a whole new enormous federal entitlement alongside it, insert the government in countless new ways between doctors and patients, and cause millions of middle-class families to lose the employer-based insurance they have today, pay even higher premiums, and find themselves herded toward a government insurance provider. Oh, and at the end of it all, if we use the methods of counting the uninsured favored by the Democrats, there are still 24 million people without health insurance.

And here are some handy numbers for your convenience.  I am informed that it makes no difference whether you call locally or to DC; the calls “count” either way.

Unless the schedule has changed since yesterday, there are only a couple days until the vote.