The GOP’S wants to use tax hikes to eliminate abortion
Here’s another one: The GOP’s plan to ban tax-payer money from funding abortions includes giant tax hikes for businesses.
More specifically, it would eliminate tax incentives on employer-provided health care benefits if those benefits cover abortion as a medical procedure.
Supporters of the bill say those incentives essentially constitute federal spending on abortion.
“We want to live up to our commitment to make sure that there is no government funding of abortion,” said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. “And the provision that you speak to does have some connect with a government’s support and funding of abortion.”
That has House and Senate Democrats up in arms….
“The Republicans in the House are proposing tax hikes because they don’t like a health plan a private-sector business chooses,” said Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA). “What they want to do is essentially make abortion unavailable.”
She sees the Senate as a backstop to preventing these measures from becoming law.
“I think we have 41 votes to stop it,” Boxer said. “We have to be on our guard that these provisions are not slipped into a must-pass bill.”