Ezra continues to claim that the worst employer incentive in MaxTax is the way it fines employers for not covering employees.

Max Baucus’s bill retains the noxious “free rider” provision on employers. Rather than a simple employer mandate that forces every employer over a certain size to provide health-care insurance or pay a small fee, the free rider approach penalizes employers $400 for hiring low-income workers who are eligible for subsidies.

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. In addition, though, MaxTax imposes much higher standards for affordability on employees who have access to health care through an employer.

Fatster found Max Baucus’ health care plan here. Use this thread to post what you find.

I’m about 1/10 of the way through. My favorite detail so far is that the Health Exchanges would take your MaxTax–your mandated payment to shitty insurance companies–as a payroll deduction.

For employed individuals who purchase health insurance through a state exchange, the premium payments would be made through payroll deductions.

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.

Dennis Blair didn’t want to touch the “inaccurate” filings submitted under Bush.

Jonathan Fredman told Gitmo officers he would show them one of the documents used to get DOJ approval.

The Senate is talking about something I talked about last week: how unaffordable the MaxTax is for the middle class.

A British PR flack is trying to claim disability because lying gave him PTSD.

The WaPo denies it killed one particular story because it wasn’t happy enough. But it appears to confirm that it is killing stories, in general, if they’re not happy enough.

Jim Haynes appears to have followed precisely the same method that Addington did when trying to avoid answering questions about the Bybee Two memo.