Sen. Rob Portman has once again demonstrated his allegiance to business.

Dispatch:


Republican Rob Portman's first U.S. Senate bill seeks a big tax cut for employers but relies on a repeal of part of the new health-care overhual to keep the tax cut from sending the federal deficit shooting upward.

The heart of the Ohioan's bill is a proposed one-year, 2 percentage-point reduction in the payroll taxes paid by employers. Portman said he backs the similar payroll-tax reduction already in place for employees, but he contends that giving employers the same break is a matter of fairness and would be a job-creation device, to the tune of 1.4 million jobs nationally.

The cost to federal coffers: $110 billion....

Portman and the Republicans just don't get it.  People want President Obama's health care reform. The public wants and needs help for the middle class.  However, the Republicans want only to help the rich, the powerful, and their big time contributors.

Sen. Portman just doesn't seem to understand that he represents human beings, not business moguls.