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White House Admits Obamacare’s Individual Mandate is a Tax
Morning Bell ^ | July 20, 2010 | Conn Carroll

Posted on 07/20/2010 8:06:20 AM PDT by Freedom Frayed

Throughout his presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama promised the American people: “If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year or less, you will see no increase in your taxes.” After he became President, Barack Obama reiterated that pledge, promising the American people in his September 9th health care press conference: “The middle-class will realize greater security, not higher taxes.” But Obamacare does contain tax hikes. Tons of them. From taxes on tanning beds to taxes on employment and investments, Obamacare is a certified job-killing machine.

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KEYWORDS: healthcare; house; mandate; obama; obamacare; taxes; white

1 posted on 07/20/2010 8:06:24 AM PDT by Freedom Frayed
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To: Freedom Frayed

So, all that noise about no tax hike for anyone earning under $200K was just that... noise.

Obama lied and America died.

FUBO!!


2 posted on 07/20/2010 8:08:25 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: Freedom Frayed

It’s more than a tax. It’s peonage.


3 posted on 07/20/2010 8:08:29 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Freedom Frayed

Of course it’s a tax. The whole point is that it’s a tax.


4 posted on 07/20/2010 8:08:54 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Freedom Frayed

D*mn, now that the White House has said it’s a tax, I don’t know whether it is or not.

Remember, the White House is the source of all lies.

There’s not an honest person there.


5 posted on 07/20/2010 8:10:34 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Freedom Frayed

And they wonder why we don’t believe a DAMN THING that comes out of congress is going to be good for us.

They wonder why we completely distrust Democrats. Well golly, MAYBE BECAUSE OF CRAP LIKE THIS!!!!!!???? Ya think?


6 posted on 07/20/2010 8:11:37 AM PDT by Danae (If Liberals were only moderately insane, they would be tollerable. Alas, such is not the case.)
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To: Freedom Frayed

IIRC, the bill/law itself says it’s not a tax.

The bill lies.


7 posted on 07/20/2010 8:14:11 AM PDT by savedbygrace (Rev 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord)
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To: Freedom Frayed
Throughout his presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama promised the American people: “If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year or less, you will see no increase in your taxes.”

Hell, he broke THAT promise ten days after he assumed office with the SCHIP bill.
8 posted on 07/20/2010 8:14:22 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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To: Freedom Frayed

I knew that when it was beging debated. That way it will pass the Supreme Court as the Constitution does give Congress the power to levy and collect taxes, just like the Social Security act was found to be legal as it is also a “Tax”.


9 posted on 07/20/2010 8:16:29 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Viva los SB 1070)
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To: Freedom Frayed

If the media had questioned him during the campaign on his MANY “misspoken” statements we wouldn’t be in this mess now.


10 posted on 07/20/2010 8:17:41 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: Da Coyote
D*mn, now that the White House has said it’s a tax, I don’t know whether it is or not.

Remember, the White House is the source of all lies.

There’s not an honest person there.

In the movies the evil scientist will always finally tell you the whole truth when he has you tied up and hanging over a vat of molten lava.

This is like that.


11 posted on 07/20/2010 8:19:56 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (No matter who you think you are, God retains His pardon and veto powers.)
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To: ScottinVA

Yes...I agree..FUBO! Lying Sack OS...


12 posted on 07/20/2010 8:20:16 AM PDT by Commander X (TOTUS...destroying the USA one lie at a time.)
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To: Freedom Frayed

The tanning bed tax is clearly racist. Think about it!


13 posted on 07/20/2010 8:21:54 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: Freedom Frayed

The public needs to rise up and throw EVERY Democrat out of the House and Snate.


14 posted on 07/20/2010 8:22:41 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Paine)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“That way it will pass the Supreme Court as the Constitution does give Congress the power to levy and collect taxes, just like the Social Security act was found to be legal as it is also a “Tax”.”

Not really. It should not pass Constitutional muster on at least two grounds: 1. It is a head tax — a tax on existing. 2. Not everyone is treated equally under the law.


15 posted on 07/20/2010 8:22:43 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings (I can see November from my house.)
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To: Freedom Frayed

People should have seen this when they put the IRS in charge. What is the purpose of the IRS? To collect taxes! That is their only reason for existence.


16 posted on 07/20/2010 8:23:15 AM PDT by RC2
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To: Freedom Frayed
ABOLISH SLAVERY
REPEAL THE 16th AMENDMENT!

17 posted on 07/20/2010 8:25:53 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Freedom Frayed

P E R F E C T !!!

Now the DNC can just keep moving the goal posts.

If you wondered how the ‘hope and change’ monkeyshines would shake out... NOW you know. That is, if you were too brain dead or gullible to figure it out months ago!!


18 posted on 07/20/2010 8:26:49 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What luck for rulers that men do not think." Adolph Hitler)
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To: marstegreg

The Media is 110% behind him. Idiots who pay for cable and sat TV support their serfdom. TV controls America and the idiots. Fox/Saudia is no better. Just smoke to fool the idiots who watch TV.


19 posted on 07/20/2010 8:27:04 AM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats = Party of I*lam)
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To: Da Coyote

Obama Care ........a certified “Job killing machine”..........That socialist imbecile does not understand that you can not tax yourself in to prosperity.......take it to the bank that in time people will realize what kind of “Loon” we are dealing with, making Jimmy Carter look a genius......absolving him from the title of being one of the worst presidents.


20 posted on 07/20/2010 8:28:29 AM PDT by saintgermaine
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
The public needs to rise up and throw EVERY Democrat DAMN ONE OF THEM out of the House and Senate.

There, FIXED!

21 posted on 07/20/2010 8:28:55 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: EternalVigilance
In the movies the evil scientist will always finally tell you the whole truth when he has you tied up and hanging over a vat of molten lava.


22 posted on 07/20/2010 8:29:10 AM PDT by pgyanke (You have no "rights" that require an involuntary burden on another person. Period. - MrB)
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To: Freedom Frayed

So, if it is a tax, is it legal to exempt certain groups from paying that tax, like unions?


23 posted on 07/20/2010 8:31:02 AM PDT by Eva (Aand)
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To: No Truce With Kings

3. It is a taxation bill that originated in the SENATE!

This is unconstitutional!

Article 1, section 7: Section. 7. All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.

Why is this not being discussed as the torpedo that kills the law, *if* the Regime is successful in convincing the SCOTUS that it is a tax?


24 posted on 07/20/2010 8:35:08 AM PDT by Carlucci (This is what happens when you play 'American Idol' with the Presidency.)
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To: savedbygrace
IIRC, the bill/law itself says it’s not a tax.

The Oboma regime is calling it a tax in court as a legal defense. Otherwise, congress has no other authority to force this on us. If the bill itself claims it is not a tax, how can it stand?

25 posted on 07/20/2010 8:50:22 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Freedom Frayed

Yeah that tanning bed tax is nothing but a “cracker” tax.


26 posted on 07/20/2010 8:50:28 AM PDT by Lil Flower (The destruction of America: It's a "big f*ckin deal"~to me!)
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To: Lil Flower
Yeah that tanning bed tax is nothing but a “cracker” tax.

Yep. The racist policies coming out of the Oboma administration are unprecedented. His legacy will be that of the most racist, and most destructive president in American history.

27 posted on 07/20/2010 8:58:14 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Freedom Frayed

When he was saying it over and over during the campaign, “not one dime!” I was screaming at McCain to CALL him on it. To look right into the camera, America’s eyes, and say “when have you ever seen a democrat not want to raise taxes? He is lying to you just to get elected”.


28 posted on 07/20/2010 9:05:51 AM PDT by thirst4truth (The left elected a mouth that is unattached to an eye, brain or muscle.)
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To: Freedom Frayed

If the government takes my money, it’s a theft or a tax... or both.

Money taken without representation, through lies and/or corruption, is unconstitutional and therefore theft. Were I King, convictions of such offenses would result in a sure and swift penalty of death.~Criminal Enterprises can not survive..... if the participants are dead~

The only people that Obama fooled, are the very fools that voted that corrupt bastard into power. ~May they suffer greatly and may never be forgiven~


29 posted on 07/20/2010 9:18:15 AM PDT by Gator113 (God save the Republic.....)
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To: Freedom Frayed

They did not need to admit anything other than two words: They LIED! =.=


30 posted on 07/20/2010 9:39:58 AM PDT by cranked
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To: ScottinVA

He didn’t lie. He just didn’t know that it was a tax. Look, Obama is obviously stupid and doesn’t know what he is doing. If we have learned anything in the past 18 months it’s that he is totally clueless.


31 posted on 07/20/2010 9:43:57 AM PDT by doggieboy
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To: concerned about politics

I’m doubting my memory at this point. Maybe I got it backwards.


32 posted on 07/20/2010 10:22:32 AM PDT by savedbygrace (Rev 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord)
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To: Carlucci

“Why is this not being discussed as the torpedo that kills the law, *if* the Regime is successful in convincing the SCOTUS that it is a tax?”

The more bricks you throw at it, the more likely one is to connect — and it does not really matter which brick brings down the house of cards. Don’t think of finding a magic bb — think of finding a pack of wolves to bring down the bison.


33 posted on 07/20/2010 11:25:02 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings (I can see November from my house.)
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To: doggieboy

“... he’s clueless...”

No, it’s worse than that. He knows exactly what he’s doing, and what effect it will have on U.S.

This is the intentional destruction of America, by a Marxist administration, brought to you by O and all his media minions.


34 posted on 07/20/2010 9:55:19 PM PDT by Freedom Frayed (Nothing is as much a threat to liberals as the truth, and those who speak it!)
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