"And so it looks like they may have reached a deal sooner than otherwise expected: unions get a special two-year exclusion from the tax."
That's a break from the tax? Well for 2 years it is. After those 2-5 years, the Unions (membership) will revolt.
"The Senate's original tax was to raise $149 billion over 10 years. Cutting $60 billion from that figure would require negotiators to find revenue elsewhere. Neither union leaders nor the White House offered any specifics on replacement taxes under consideration."
One wonders how/where the short fall will be made up?
On a somewhat related note, this was the first indication that I found about how utterly for sale Obama has always been
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/08/hands-off-big-labor
Oddly, the MSM didn't bother to pick this one up in between bouts of fainting over the new messiah.
