Bachmann opposes tax deduction for breast pumps

How is it any social concern or statement has to be a “Feftist Social Agenda?” If a breast pump is a bad tax deduction. ( not a tax credit) then shouldn’t children also be a bad deduction or credit also? We certainly don’t want to encourage the minority communities to be good parents.

Michelle needs to marry a winning presidential candidate. Then she could be an excellent First Lady’

Michele Bachmann needs a reality check.

Bachmann’s laser-like focus on jobs and the economy continues… WTF, Michele?

And a breast pump costs how much? Wow that will balance the budget.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but “tax deductible” does not equate “buying the breast pump”. I’m sure that Michelle Bachmann and her Tea Party cronies relish and enjoy EVERY tax deductible opportunities they have and would be hooting and hollering if anyone tried to take them away. Hypocrites!

does michele bachmann even understand the concept of an FSA? the government wouldn’t be buying anyone’s breast pump, but, if you chose to enroll in an FSA, the money you put aside from your paycheck to spend on said breast pump (and glasses, your kids braces, dependent care costs, or other things that are covered) would not be taxed.

as far as rios’s argument, just because 75% of women breastfeed already doesn’t mean that businesses and workplaces are accomodating to breastfeeding mothers. find something else to be outraged about.

Breastfeeding is the most natural way to bond with your child, and provide a great start to having a healthy, happy child. Breast Pumps are extremely expensive, especially the double pumps that seem to be a necessity for women who have to work or do errands or anything else that doesn’t include just sitting at home. I think having it as a tax deduction is great! What no one is talking about is how most pediatricians are amped and ready to take the baby off the breast and put them straight to formula bottle feed as soon as any kind of “complication” arises. We wouldn’t have a whole generation of unattached parents and children had this trend never started. If the First Lady is supporting this as a part of a movement for the black community, no one should be upset, as those ARE the women, amongst other minorities, who are pushed to formula feed their infants! (Oh and for the record, those complaining about more spending being the issue, I didn’t see any of those complaints when the tax cuts for the rich were extended!)

AS Forrest Gump stated so eloquently…”Stupid is as Stupid does.”

Tax Cuts for the very wealthy!!! Good!!

Breast Pump deduction, BAD!!!!!

This is going to win a lot of women voters for Michele Bachmann.

There she goes again!

Doesn’t Michele Bchmann have better things to do with her time than go on the attack against the First Lady? What a POOR excuse for a member of Congress. I pity the fools in Minnesota’s 6th CD for voting this hateful woman in. “Nanny state” my ass!!

Michele Bachmann has been sucking off the Government tit, (pun intended) for many years now. As a Foster Mother of 23 children, as a State Senator from Minnesota for 8 years, and now Congresswoman for going on 5 years. She also likes those Farm subsidies …

In the Webster’s Dictionary definition of HPYOCRITE…it says Michele Bachmann

If Michele Bachmann dislikes this country and “Nanny State” so much, she should resign from Congress and go draw a paycheck from a REAL job like the rest of us do. Her Sh!t stinks, people!!!

Let me see if I understand. Bachmann believes that the government “intrudes” too much into its citizen’s lives by (among other things) taking too much of its citizen’s money. Putting money into a pre-tax dollar medical benefits account decreases one’s tax liability and thus decreases this “intrusiveness”. So, how is adding breast pumps to the list of approved pre-tax dollars expenditures (a list which includes co-pays for Viagra) a bad thing?

Bachmann represents an extremely conservative, overwhelmingly white district that includes St. Cloud University, the site of regular outbreaks of anti-antisemitism, anti-Muslim and anti-black behaviors. I don’t recall hearing Bachmann ever even comment on these attacks much less condemn them.

This is not about breast pumps. This is about race generally and the current occupants of The White House in particular.

I’ve gone through a very long period of finding Bachmann so ridiculous she was fun to listen to – just for the comedy. I’m over that. Now I find her sickening. For the life of me I can not fathom why someone like this is allowed to exist.

So a nanny state takes away choices. Which is what Bachmann is doing by trying to deny women the use of THEIR OWN MONEY. No one is saying these women MUST breastfeed, Michelle Obama is just helping to get more information and support out there. Another thing that I think Bachmann is forgetting is that in low-income areas where formula is being used, who is paying for the formula? It’s expensive! Many of the families that she’s promoting breastfeeding to are likely low-income and on WIC or food stamps. Our tax dollars are buying it. Breastfeeding, other than the pump and some storage bags, is free! So by Bachmann trying to deny women the ability to buy pumps (again, with their own money) she is costing the government more money. I’m all for women being able to choose how to feed their baby, but it goes both ways.

Wow, what a “liberal” view it is to promote family values, and economy serving, health promoting of breast feeding. How are we to stand such a liberal view of such a traditional family function like breatfeeding.

wow.

How does making them tax deductible make it a nanny state?? It’s not like they’re GIVING them away.

If anything, they’ll SAVE money in the long run because there will be less hospital costs/ doctor visits incurred with babies on medicaid coming in with colds, etc. since it’s proven that breastfed babies are healthier.

“I’ve given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies.”

Oh sweetie. If you had another brain, it would be lonely. The government isn’t buying anyone a breast pump. It’s merely making it eligible for pre-tax spending through flexible benefit accounts — just like like cough syrup and band-aids. Of course, if you think those shouldn’t be tax-exempt, then you should a) stop using cough syrup and bandaids, and b) eliminate the benefit thereby raising taxes. Twist on that sticking point, honey!

P.S. I’m guessing you weren’t working anywhere while you were breast feeding your spawn.

Who knew she would be so opposed to tax breaks for nursing women? How dare they keep more of their own money!

Although I agree with breast feeding…it’s obviously the most healthy for the baby, I agree with Bachmann that Mrs. Obama (Soetoro) is just a mouthpiece for New World Order cronyism.

If liberals and progressives would make a point of attending Bachmann’s public events and flashing their boobs at her, it would bring a little bit of the crazy back at her – and be a bit of fun as well. “Tits for the bat,” anyone?

celebs4truth! REALLY???

What planet are you from? URANUS????

WHAT!! Michele is KILLING breast pumps???? That is just wrong for the freaky guys like me that have a Lactation Fetish…Lol…

I am a conservative. I am also a breastfeeding advocate. This is just stupid. You contribute to your FSA and I have no problem with you being able to use it to purchase a breast pump.

Most health insurance plans cover Viagra, but Bachmann says there shouldn’t be a personal deduction for breast pumps? Add to that her stance on abortion and one has to wonder if she really isn’t a red-neck man in disguise.

The mere idea of a FSA is a conservative one, you put your OWN money into it, and BUY THINGS WITH IT. Only medical items, and devices can be bought with it. Why is a breast pump any different than a c-pap machine? The government does not regulate or changes an item when it becomes FSA eligible. If you go to a big box store say Sam’s club, you actually get labels on things that say FSA or not. And since the beginning of the year, many many many things are not FSA eligible anymore.

Nanny state? This woman is so far from the right, she is so far from the right of right even! she is out there hundreds of miles right of the right. Does she understand that the form of governement she endorses is gun toting, militia? Does anyone besides me see this and relates it to a cult like, wako like lifestyle? wow

Additional proof that Rep. Bachmann is interested only in promoting herself. She has no coherent ideology, and her agenda is limited to getting media attention.

Representing her constituents is not even on the list for her.

Bachmann is a joke of a representative. She wants to defund Planned Parenthood, which would increase pregnancies when women do not have access to low cost birth control, family planning, healthcare. Basing her conclusions on a Brietbart-esque film sting that got a P.P. fired, she wants to defund P.P. . By her logic, we need to defund Congress too when a member makes serious, ethical errors.

Bachmann is the same ‘nanny stater’ that charged the American taxpayer $14k for her teaparty. This hypocritical woman sucks so much money out of government, both state and federal while condemning a deduction this a breast pump. Sick, sick, sick.

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On what Michele Bachmann’s, BFF Sarah Palin, has to say about the Breastfeeding Issue…http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/17/palin-talks-2012-mocks-michelle-obama/#more-147394

On Michelle Obama:
“No wonder Michelle Obama is telling people to breast feed their babies, because the price of milk is rising so high.”

Is it any wonder that two of the most inane women are thinking of running for POTUS???

This is really eating at me today. Lets scream and yell that the left wants nothing but to charge more taxes! but the minute there is a tax deduction then the leftest is a nanny state?

Again, the GOP talks out of both sides of their err Mouths. just to keep it clean.

I really think that it could be an identical bill that GOP pushes, but if a DFL’s Voice is on it, then she would scream STOP.

Its all about being partisan and being right and in power. To only have ONE in power is to have dictatorship.

I’d like to know why she gets a farm subsidy when she isn’t even a farmer!

lady k of Olmsted hey don’t pity us in the sixth district , pray for us
with bachman at the helm , we are like the veldez run aground and sinking fast ,
with allot of crap spilling out the mouth from the captain of our ship

that’s why she,s on the intel committee when they want something leaked tell bachman she will let us know , there is no way she has the experience to be on that committee a slap in the face to the citizen,s by the speaker of the house bohner

Who elected her? You let the inmate run the asylum.

I have done a lot of praying for the 6th CD, ray!

God isn’t listening apparently! Nor is He speaking to Michele Bachmann.

If the average American is fallling for this, America is doomed. This is just the latest rant by a conservative speaking to those Americans who are not able to think for themselves. Sad. Shame on you Michele Bachmann, for taking advantage of them.

So god damned tired of this dumbfuck loony. Her and Palin can go fuck themselves sideways.

It is time we stop finding things to oppose based solely on “the other party”. Seriously. Opposing making breastfeeding more accessible to all women is like opposing puppies and sunshine. Ms. Bachmann needs to just come clean and admit she is an ignorant racist. If a white conservative would have come up with the idea (supported by most well-educated pediatiricians and common sense) that breastfeeding should be encouraged because “god wants it that way”, she would be all for it. Instead, because Michelle Obama supports breastfeeding for all women, including, gasp, minorities and underserved populations, and we become a “nanny state”. Breastfeeding is a lot less expensive than formula, encourages good health for all humans, and increases brain development. What are you afraid of, Ms. Bachmann? More intelligent and healthy black people like the Obamas?

You kids better pay attention in class otherwise you’ll end up really stupid like Bachman and Palin! Little cupcakes with nothing between the ears! The Taliban is now in charge in America. You’re fricking kidding me – the Taliban um t party wants to tell women this too? But you know a lot of what the far right objects to is the fact that the president and first lady are of a different skin color. They’re enraged by it and they cloak it in things like saying “breast pumps bad” – but really show they have no understanding of insurance, or tax code, or most anything to do with real life. “No black is going to tell me what to do” kind of a thing. What a racist comment – saying that would only benefit black women.
Obviously Bachman was a member of the welfare state while supposedly breastfeeding her supposed children. If she had used a pump she would be singing a different tune. Signed, someone who actually works for a living and is really really tired of stupid people trying to tell me what to do and say they’re trying to get government out of my back pocket. Well get the hell out of my brassiere too.

I have no problem whatsoever with breast pumps being tax-deductible, but if you actually read the tax code you can see where they were coming from. Deductible medical expenses are supposed to be for things used to treat or prevent disease, not promote health. That is why things like vitamins and health club dues are not covered either. I’m not saying I agree with this, but this is how the tax code is written. If we are opening up the door to expanding the definition of medical expenses to items that improve our health, I want to deduct my treadmill and other fitness equipment.

Man, what a bunch of misogynist, christian-hating, nanny-statists you leftists are.

At least you didn’t have to get yourself to church today in the blizzard, you have that going for you.

Hi there you Minnesotans. I just thought I’d comment here to say: Good luck with having Representative Bachmann making all of you look like lunatics for electing her. Gosh I hope she runs for President — if she gets the nomination then President Obama will be a shoo-in for re-election.

What’s with that infantile outburst, Dennis? How about muzzling your vile mouth with one of those breast pumps? And yes, you may pay for it out of your FSA. Sheesh.

Okie Dokie.

The GOP is running against breast pumps.

Meanwhile, Japan suffers, Libya burns, and millions of people are out of work, to name a few.

Are they playing to the dumbass vote or what?

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