The not-so-free lunch

Politics Daily: Here's a guy who will get hit by the "Cadillac Tax" in the health care plan. He's 59, a union man, worked in the same steel mill for 41 years, makes a base salary of $41,000 a year, drives a Ford pick-up, saw his pension slashed in half. He doesn't think he can retire until he's 65. He lives in a house across the street from the one where he grew up.

He and every worker in his plant, he says, will be hit by the excise tax on insurance companies in the Senate bill.

"The middle class can't afford another tax," he said. "Let them get it from the Bush folks, the 1 percent that's been enjoying the tax cuts. Get it from them."

Everybody likes the idea of taxing somebody else.