OBAMACARE ... NOW YOU TELL US!
The ObamaCare health insurance mandate was a tax? NOW you tell me!
It seems to me that when Obama was pushing to pass ObamaCare, the Democrats denied the fact that requiring Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty was creating a new tax. Here's a little refresher. This was an interview with George Stephanopoulos which took place in September of 2009. PrezBo said: "The -- for us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. What it's saying is, is that we're not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you anymore than the fact that right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance. Nobody considers that a tax increase. People say to themselves, that is a fair way to make sure that if you hit my car, that I'm not covering all the costs." Now let's flash to summer 2010 when ObamaCare is being challenged by more than 20 states in the courts. The Obama Administration needs and excuse for the law forcing people to buy health insurance, and they've found one. Now, suddenly, it's a TAX! That's tight, the health care mandate is actually a TAX and the government's "power to lay and collect taxes" is all the authorization they need! Amazing how the tune changes when they are backed up against the wall and are forced to defend the law based on our Constitution and not Obama logic.
But that's not all we are learning in the months following the passage of ObamaCare. This from the New York Times, "As the Obama administration begins to enact the new national health care law, the country's biggest insurers are promoting affordable plans with reduced premiums that require participants to use a narrower selection of doctors or hospitals .. The tradeoff, they say, is that more Americans will be asked to pay higher prices for the privilege of choosing or keeping their own doctors if they are outside the new networks. That could come as a surprise to many who remember the repeated assurances from President Obama and other officials that consumers would retain a variety of health-care choices and that you would be able to keep your doctor if you wished to. Surprise? Not for anyone who knew the consequences of a system that limits competition and mandates participation. But then they probably don't teach these concepts in government schools.
We're still not through. How about ObamaCare's effect on government agencies like the IRS. The IRS, you will remember, is expected to enforce these news laws and regulations. This from the Wall Street Journal, "National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson, who operates inside the IRS, highlighted the agency's new mission in her annual report to Congress last week .. She notes that the IRS is already 'greatly taxed'--pun intended?--'by the additional role it is playing in delivering social benefits and programs to the American public,' like tax credits for first-time homebuyers or purchasing electric cars. Yet with ObamaCare, the agency is now responsible for 'the most extensive social benefit program the IRS has been asked to implement in recent history.' And without 'sufficient funding' it won't be able to discharge these new duties." The IRS can't handle the workload so the only option is more money. Taxpayers .. bend over!
Hey you filthy rich people earning over $200,000 a year .. did you know that ObamaCare has another hidden tax that you may not know about? Section 1402, "Unearned Income Medicare Contribution," imposes a 3.8% tax on profits from the sale of real estate -- residential or investment, but it is only levied on people earning over $200,000 a year. Fun stuff, isn't it?
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It seems to me that when Obama was pushing to pass ObamaCare, the Democrats denied the fact that requiring Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty was creating a new tax. Here's a little refresher. This was an interview with George Stephanopoulos which took place in September of 2009. PrezBo said: "The -- for us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. What it's saying is, is that we're not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you anymore than the fact that right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance. Nobody considers that a tax increase. People say to themselves, that is a fair way to make sure that if you hit my car, that I'm not covering all the costs." Now let's flash to summer 2010 when ObamaCare is being challenged by more than 20 states in the courts. The Obama Administration needs and excuse for the law forcing people to buy health insurance, and they've found one. Now, suddenly, it's a TAX! That's tight, the health care mandate is actually a TAX and the government's "power to lay and collect taxes" is all the authorization they need! Amazing how the tune changes when they are backed up against the wall and are forced to defend the law based on our Constitution and not Obama logic.
But that's not all we are learning in the months following the passage of ObamaCare. This from the New York Times, "As the Obama administration begins to enact the new national health care law, the country's biggest insurers are promoting affordable plans with reduced premiums that require participants to use a narrower selection of doctors or hospitals .. The tradeoff, they say, is that more Americans will be asked to pay higher prices for the privilege of choosing or keeping their own doctors if they are outside the new networks. That could come as a surprise to many who remember the repeated assurances from President Obama and other officials that consumers would retain a variety of health-care choices and that you would be able to keep your doctor if you wished to. Surprise? Not for anyone who knew the consequences of a system that limits competition and mandates participation. But then they probably don't teach these concepts in government schools.
We're still not through. How about ObamaCare's effect on government agencies like the IRS. The IRS, you will remember, is expected to enforce these news laws and regulations. This from the Wall Street Journal, "National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson, who operates inside the IRS, highlighted the agency's new mission in her annual report to Congress last week .. She notes that the IRS is already 'greatly taxed'--pun intended?--'by the additional role it is playing in delivering social benefits and programs to the American public,' like tax credits for first-time homebuyers or purchasing electric cars. Yet with ObamaCare, the agency is now responsible for 'the most extensive social benefit program the IRS has been asked to implement in recent history.' And without 'sufficient funding' it won't be able to discharge these new duties." The IRS can't handle the workload so the only option is more money. Taxpayers .. bend over!
Hey you filthy rich people earning over $200,000 a year .. did you know that ObamaCare has another hidden tax that you may not know about? Section 1402, "Unearned Income Medicare Contribution," imposes a 3.8% tax on profits from the sale of real estate -- residential or investment, but it is only levied on people earning over $200,000 a year. Fun stuff, isn't it?
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