Comments on Advance Indiana™: Cook Medical Cancels Expansion Plans Due To Obamacare Tax Increases

It is a sales tax. It will be collected on all med...

2012-07-30T07:46:14.208-05:00

It is a sales tax. It will be collected on all medical devices sold. The people who are needing those devices are right here in the USA. If you produce the devices here or overseas, doesn't matter.

I guess Cook will sell less devices to Americans now. Not like those sales taxes get passed on to the consumers anyway. I think this sounds all very election year hokey, doesn't it?

While I am not sure how putting a tax on medical d...

2012-07-29T06:26:43.020-05:00

While I am not sure how putting a tax on medical devices makes healthcare more affordable (subtle sarcasm), I wonder why our legislators continue to make decisions that encourage manufacturing anything outside of the US.
Congressmen, etc, repeat after me, "if I want to tax goods made in the US, I have to also tax goods made outside the US." otherwise I am going to eliminate even more US jobs.