By Sammy Benoit
The Democrats have made it official, they are the party who picks the needs of the special interests over that of the middle class.
Under the deal announced by the AFL-CIO yesterday (neither Congress nor the White House had the guts to announce it first), union members will be exempted from paying the “Cadillac Tax” until 2008. To put it another way, the middle class will be paying taxes to fund the health insurance for union members, and illegal immigrants.
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