In an item headlined, "Obama not closing door on possible health care tax," Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, an Associated Press Writer, reported on 6/25/2009 that with lawmakers trying to crunch the numbers on a $1 trillion health care overhaul, President Barack Obama is leaving the door open to a new tax on employer-provided health care benefits. Senior senators (no doubt all Democrats) said Wednesday the benefits tax could be essential for the complex plan to be fully financed. As I said last month at the risk of sounding completely political, when the Democrats are in charge, they want your taxes to go up, UP, UP! to pay for everything that they want to do to help keep them in power.