This week, Matt Miller takes the biscuit with this idiotic post about Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak. A typical faux-progressive poseur, Miller doesn’t recognize actual principles when he sees them and thus has difficulty understanding how Stupak could allow his abortion scruples to get in the way of Obamacare. So he decides it’s just TOO ridiculous:
This entire debate is ridiculous, because the feds already subsidize abortions massively, via the giant tax subsidy for employer-provided care.
This is unadulterated BS. The federal government does not subsidize abortions. Miller’s “giant tax subsidy” is the long-standing component of the U.S. tax code that allows all working Americans to use pre-tax dollars to buy health insurance. In other words, it allows women keep more of their own money if they use it to buy coverage through their employers.
Miller apparently believes that allowing women to use their own wages to pay for health plans, some of which cover certain types of abortion (usually because of government-imposed benefit mandates), is the same thing as taking money out of your paycheck and sending it to an abortion clinic, which is what Obamacare proposes to do.
Ironically, there are good economic reasons to alter the part of the tax code to which Miller refers, but they have nothing to do with abortion. And Miller, like most members of the MSM, attacked John McCain when he proposed making such changes during the 2008 presidential campaign. He joined Barack Obama in accusing McCain of wanting to “tax health care instead of fixing it.”
For Miller, however, Stupak’s principles are utterly unfathomable and must be explained away using some pre-approved “progressive” trope. Thus, he insinuates that the Michigan Democrat is a hypocrite for failing to single-handedly repeal a seventy-year-old component of the U.S. tax code that does not, in fact, subsidize abortion.
The truly “ridiculous” thing here is not “the entire debate” or Stupak’s position. It is Miller’s post.
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