Taxing Health Care Benefits or Unions Are Special

From The Electorate:

Recently it was suggested that the federal government should tax health care benefits received at work as income, but that they should not tax the health care benefits of union workers. I thought that no one in Congress would actually be foolish enough to seriously propose this because it is so blatantly unfair.

I underestimated Congress.

Senator Max Baucus did just this. Is union influence so great that Congress would alienate the rest of the country just to appease the unions? Does Congress approve preferential treatment for political supporters? I would hate to think Congress can be bought and sold.

American citizens should be treated equally. No group should have special rights.