phill4paul
07-17-2010, 04:22 PM
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/18/obama-administration-health-care-mandates-are-taxes-after-all/
This means that Obama has broken two pledges. First, Obama insisted that he would not attempt to use the tax argument to get approval from the courts. Second, Obama just signed the largest middle-class tax increase in years, if not ever, by mandating not just the purchase of insurance but of specific kinds of insurance. Some estimates show that over 51% of all Americans will have to change their plans in order to meet the new requirements, and that’s not to pay less, either. Not only that, but the Obama administration is prepared to make the argument that it passed a massive tax increase in court.
This means that Obama has broken two pledges. First, Obama insisted that he would not attempt to use the tax argument to get approval from the courts. Second, Obama just signed the largest middle-class tax increase in years, if not ever, by mandating not just the purchase of insurance but of specific kinds of insurance. Some estimates show that over 51% of all Americans will have to change their plans in order to meet the new requirements, and that’s not to pay less, either. Not only that, but the Obama administration is prepared to make the argument that it passed a massive tax increase in court.