“Last year I tried to compile a list of all the taxes President Obama and his allies were maneuvering to impose. But each week brings new ideas. Just recently we’ve heard about a bank tax, applying the Medicare tax to capital gains and other “passive” or “unearned” income, raising the Medicare tax rate, raising or broadening the capital gains tax, an income tax “surtax,” a tax on tanning – and of course the tax on private health insurance to pay for the expansion of government insurance has moved to the top of the list…”
David Boaz at The Cato Institute looks at new taxes being considered @ http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/01/18/democrats-voracious-search-for-new-tax-revenue/