After promising to not raise taxes for the middle class about 9.3 billion times during the campaign, the new “individual mandate” in the Deathcare bill looks a lot like a tax…but Obama, of course, says it’s not. Why? Check out the exchange from @ Hot Air.
During his Magical Mystery Tour of the Sunday chat shows, Pres. Obama took ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on a trip Through the Looking Glass on the question of whether the health insurance mandate is a tax:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Under this mandate, the government is forcing people to spend money, fining you if you don’t. How is that not a tax?
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OBAMA: No, but — but, George, you — you can’t just make up that language and decide that that’s called a tax increase…
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STEPHANOPOULOS: I — I don’t think I’m making it up. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary: Tax — “a charge, usually of money, imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes.”
OBAMA: George, the fact that you looked up Merriam’s Dictionary, the definition of tax increase, indicates to me that you’re stretching a little bit right now. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have gone to the dictionary to check on the definition.
It’s not a stretch. George was right on to pull that out. Obama and his little mafia gang are going to levy two of the largest taxes the middle class has ever seen through deathcare and through cap and tax.
It’s all euphemisms. As long as Obama doesn’t say “tax,” he can claim he’s not lying around increasing taxes for the middle-class. As long as the healthcare bill says “female reproductive health situations,” he can say that it doesn’t given any Federal money to “abortion.”
Mr. Obama: You lie!
He’s going to tax us…and he’s going to tax us hard. Pelosi already admitted that the “surcharge” tax of “upper class” people was going to pay for the lower class. It’s wealth distribution under the guise of “healthcare.”
Great video of VA gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds trying (and utterly failing) to dodge questions about new taxes in the state.
I love how he keeps repeating himself over and over; he fawns over the term “general fund” like it’s a furry little puppy. He should be easy picking if the VA GOP handles this right.
After the November election, Democrats will push for a second economic stimulus package that includes money for the states’ stalled infrastructure projects, along with help paying for healthcare expenses, food stamps and extended unemployment benefits, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said Thursday.
There are so many things wrong with that paragraph. Let’s start:
Let the states fund their own infrastructure. If they can’t, they don’t need it.
Healthcare is not a charity nor is it a right. It’s a business. Doctors are not state employees; that is their livelihood. Not the government’s place to be paying for it.
Food stamps = welfare. Welfare = bad. Nuff said.
Unemployment benefits only encourage the bums to sit on their, well, bums, and not get jobs. Slash ‘em! As the great Ronald Reagan once said, the best social program is a JOB!
In a meeting with the editorial board of The Standard-Times, Rep. Frank, D-Mass., also called for a 25 percent cut in military spending, saying the Pentagon has to start choosing from its many weapons programs, and that upper-income taxpayers are going to see an increase in what they are asked to pay.
So the barbarians are at the gate, we are fighting two wars plus an overarching ‘war on terror’ and Iran and North Korea are threatening to start WWIII. And you want to CUT THE MILITARY SPENDING? How about instead we remove you from office and use your salary to buy another tank?
Unfortunately for the Dems, the 80/20 rule that works in business does not work for taxes. You can’t just sit on the “upper-income” taxpayers and expect that to fix the economy. The “upper-income” business taxpayers (who already pay one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world) are the backbone of our economy.
You tax the big guys too hard, they stop expanding their businesses and stop hiring, which HURTS the economy. Spending goes down and unemployment goes up. Frank already knows this, of course; that’s why he’s pushing for more unemployment benefits.
I predicted massive tax increases if either Oba-change-ma or Shrillary won in November. Apparently, Congress stupidly decided to get started early.
WASHINGTON - Both houses of Congress endorsed the idea of tax increases for millions of Americans Thursday as Democrats pressed ahead with budget plans that would allow some or all of President Bush’s reductions to die after he leaves office.
Idiots. If you want to pass ridiculous legislation that will harm the citizens, you have to wait until you have a Democrat in as president, otherwise it is going to get vetoed. It is technically a non-binding resolution, but it’s still unnecessary.
McCain’s tax cuts would require applying a meat cleaver to spending, while the Democrats promise spending that would enlarge the deficit or require too-large tax increases.
A meat cleaver to spending. How amazing is that? I’ll tell ya; it’s almost as amazing as the fact that the Dems are still getting votes when there’s no way they can afford even half of the garbage they are promising.
