Heard a rumor at a get together today that new Health Bill will have some effects on Landlords... but the person could not give more details - can anyone shed some more light on that?!

The new health-care legislation aims to raise $210 billion over 10 years to pay for the extensive new entitlements. How? By slapping a 3.8% "Medicare tax" on interest and rental income, dividends and capital gains of couples earning more than $250,000, or singles with more than $200,000.

The sad part about this is... I'm going to have to raise my RENTS by 3.9% to cover this tax.

Democrats, love to tell the poor people in this country, that the rich pay taxes... LOL

The only way to truly tax a rich person is to have a consumption tax. Oprah is never going to give up her plane, and Rush Limbaugh is never going to give up his cigars.

Tax them to kingdom come, and stop raising the taxes for us upper middle income families.

What really makes me sick is this is just the beginning of the tax increases. You can't run a $1.8 trillion dollar deficits, and promise to close it, without finding $1.8 trillion in NEW taxes.

James, it's such a mess with all the ...... well the costs are so massive that what you're seeing today won't reflect much of anything of what we'll soon see. But taxes are going up all across the board. Even if we manage to get common sense people in place, it will take years to correct this mess if it even can be corrected.

But I think it's safe to say eventually "all" rents will be subject to the medicare tax plus the bush tax cuts will fade away this year. Then as the true costs of this giant legislation come into focus, congress will throw their hands up in dis-belief of the errors "made by others" and start raising taxes still more. History has a way of repeating itself over and over.

Most of your HC problems will be solved soon. Seems the O administration is telling the Physicians to take a cut in wages, and they are, many are going into research.