Subject: Don't tax employee health benefits Comment: Please let common sense prevail. As so aptly stated by American Benefits Council President James Klein "It is hard to see how the advisory panel would make the American taxpayer better off by lowering their alternative minimum tax burden only to turn around and increase their tax burden for the health coverage they choose for themselves and their family." If anything, you wise tax reformers need to look at ways to ENCOURAGE workers to participate in employer sponsored health benefits not discourage them! More uninsured workers can only result in a HIGHER tax burden on federal, state, loacal governments. |