Here’s a scary part of MaxTax, if I understand it correctly. MaxTax still screws employees but rewards Wal-Mart as I’ve laid out in this post and this post. Here’s the language in question:

As a general matter, if an employee is offered employer-provided health insurance coverage, the individual would be ineligible for a low income premium tax credit for health insurance purchased through a state exchange.

Ever since the Democrats took over Congress, it’s been one excuse after another as to why nothing but corporate-friendly, anti-progressive legislation gets passed.

We couldn’t end the war because we didn’t have “60 votes” (which they knew was bullshit, as Paul Kanjorski admits in the video).

Poor Erick.

I know cash is tight, but unless conservatives are willing to step up to the plate, we’re not going to get these guys elected and, frankly, the establishment of the Republican Party will keep ignoring us.

Max Baucus’ rules for forcing people to purchase health insurance tilt strongly in favor of giving insurance companies discretion to charge the sickest people more than they can afford.

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, ROBERT JOHNSON, and BARRETT SHERIDAN on whether the worst is over. And if it is, what’s to prevent another economic storm from happening again?

Marcus Brauchli says there are too many readers complaining about the newspaper getting in the way of his attempts to ignore readers as he guts the paper.

I’ve heard that they have installed some software that counts how quickly the OFA list is depleting due to the public plan. This should really goose things.

That bold new campaign to tell everyone how bad the insurance companies are will probably still put it over the top. Now that they’ve been tasked with writing the bill and all.

As of today, Baucus faces an uphill battle: Rockefeller isn’t on board, and Kerry, Menendez, and Bill Nelson have concerns; Wyden isn’t on board; Snowe isn’t on board; Grassley isn’t on board. . . .

So much for bipartisan compromise…

Wendell Potter, former CIGNA executive, makes it clear.

Heckuva job, Max.