This week and last we’ve seen some firmer ideas from House Democrats on how they expect to pay for Obamacare and from those ideas it is becoming increasingly, painfully obvious that small businesses will be hit hard with tax increases and this during one of the worst economic downturns in decades. Right when we need economic growth from small business, the backbone of the country, Democrats are making to punish them thereby pushing any economic recovery far off into the future… if at all.

Not all Democrats want to tread this suicidal path, granted. We’ve discussed the efforts of the 40 self-professed Blue Dogs several times before (Here and here) as last week they sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Stenny Hoyer of the Democratic leadership in the House warning them that they weren’t necessarily on board with the current direction that Democrats in the House were going on healthcare.

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Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn’t be related. - J.C. Watts, Jr.

President Bush’s tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 lowered the death tax from 55 percent to 45 percent this year and would have eliminated them entirely next year. But Dr. Frankenbama’s budget drags the rotting corpse of the death tax from its intended grave by keeping it at its 2009 level next year. The doctor who would be God wants the money the tax will generate (45 percent of a deceased person’s estate valued over $3.5 million dollars and $7 million for a couple) to pay for his horrific social experiments. With the Democrat-controlled Congress cast in the role of Igor to help him, there’s nothing to stop the horror.

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