Liberals Claim "ObamaTax" Punishes "Free Riders"

RUSH: Let's go to Nancy Pelosi. This is yesterday on Meet the Press, David Gregory said, "To the extent that you believe, others believe, the Supreme Court has conferred an extra level of legitimacy on ObamaTax, reality is that the court also said that the act is in effect a tax, that the individual mandate requiring people who can buy insurance is a tax. Won't that make it more difficult to sell the popularity of this program to the American people?"

PELOSI: Who is the penalty on? The penalty is on people who have the wherewithal but refuse to buy health insurance, figuring they won't be sick, and if they do, other people will have to cover it. So these free riders, as they were identified by Governor Romney himself, he said, people have the ability to pay and don't can't expect to be free riders, and I think that he termed it exactly right. These free riders make health insurance for those who are taking responsibility making it more expensive. Personal responsibility is a principle of our country. Conservatives claim it, progressives claim it, liberals claim it, we all claim it.

RUSH: What a crock she is asking us to swallow now. One more sound bite. She's adamant that it's only a penalty on the free riders, still here with David Gregory on Meet the Depressed.

GREGORY: Well, in fact, his own solicitor general went to the Supreme Court and said, "This is constitutional under the taxing authority of Congress."

GREGORY: So that's not how this was sold to the Amer -- (crosstalk) not how it was sold to the American people.

PELOSI: It's a penalty. No, it's a penalty. It's a penalty that comes under the tax code for the 1%, perhaps of the population who may decide that they're gonna be free riders, but most people are not --

PELOSI: It's not a tax on the American people. It's a tax -- it's a penalty for free riders.

RUSH: All right. I've about had all this I can take. Free riders, a penalty for free riders. What an attitude shift this is toward the uninsured. What an about-face this is. Pelosi, the Democrats are pushing for Obamacare back in 2009 and 2010, and they were bombarding us with heartbreaking stories about the 30 to 50 million people who had to go without health insurance. And they weren't free riders, they were victims. They were victims of a mean country, victims of the rich, victims of corporations, victims of small business. They were victims of the 1%. We were even told that 45,000 people die every year because they couldn't get health insurance, and now all of a sudden they're a bunch of freeloaders? Now all of a sudden since the Supreme Court ruling has come out and made this effectively ObamaTax instead of Obamacare, now they're free riders?

This is the party that celebrates free riders. This is the party that devotes itself to creating even more free riders. This is a party that could not survive without free riders and freeloaders. This is a party that does everything it can to make people as dependent as possible on the government. Free riders, freeloaders. And now this ruling is apparently so distasteful that the Democrat Party has to do a 180 and start attacking their own voters. Well, what happened to the precious 30 to 50 million uninsured? This is the piece de resistance, Democrats like Nancy Pelosi mocking free riders. The entire mission of the Democrat Party is to create more and more free riders. Haven't they seen to it that almost half the country doesn't pay income tax, a bunch of free riders?

Isn't their goal to get more and more people dependent on the government? Didn't they spend millions advertising for more people to take free handouts from the government? Isn't there a big advertising campaign on right now to expand the scope of food stamps to the food free riders? Hell's bells, folks, the Democrat Party is the free rider party. How do you say free riders in Spanish? Joe Muniz, up in our sound bite central, Joe, I want you to send me an e-mail or a text, send me a phonetic spelling of free rider in Espanol. Well? Guess what. That's what Obamacare is all about now, punishing the free riders. It's just you evil people who can pay, but you don't, and you go to the emergency room when you get sick. What the hell is insuring preexisting conditions if it's not a bunch of free riders?

According to their definition, everybody with a preexisting condition, and now with ObamaTax, do you know what? You don't have to have insurance. In fact, we're not even talking about insurance anymore. If preexisting conditions are now mandated to be treated, covered, then you don't buy insurance, you don't have any, you pay a little nominal fine as a free rider and then all of a sudden you're diagnosed with a terminal disease or something close to it, so you show up and you now have to be granted insurance. Well, you're free riding, according to Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat Party. You who have preexisting conditions, who don't want to get insurance until the preexisting condition becomes something really bad, you're now a bunch of freeloaders. From the party from creates them, invents them, lives off of them.

What a bastardized thing we've ended up with here. And it is a tax, and worse than that, it's a precedent-setting tax on what you do not do.

RUSH: ait 'til you hear the details of this and what the IRS is now empowered to learn about you, your entire family, your business, via your tax return and how they're able to share it with other government agencies.

RUSH: And we are back. Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from God-d. All right, the term in Espanol for "free riders" is -- dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut! -- "aprovechados." Aprovechados. Aprovechados. That's somebody who takes advantage of the situation. That is the term that would most likely be applied here to free riders. Aprovechados. So any Hispanics in the audience that are speed-dialing here and they happen to come across "aprovechados" (chuckling), I guarantee you they stopped in their tracks to find out what that's about.

RUSH: Pelosi, the Democrats, free riders. And now to listen to the administration people all over the Sunday shows yesterday, says it's not a tax. It's not even Obamacare. It's ObamaTax. This is a tax, a tax written by the judicial branch of government. The regime didn't even want it this way. They'll take it obviously. But now they're asking everybody to move on.

Yep, that's right, time to move on now. Democrats want to move on after ruling. That's how we got MoveOn.org. It's time to move on from Clinton, if you remember. Can we just move on, Clinton-Lewinsky. So we got MoveOn.org. Which, by the way, is reporting they're having trouble raising money. So maybe now they can revitalize themselves. Move on from ObamaTax.

From The Politico: "Never mind what the Supreme Court said -- the White House is doubling down on its insistence that the individual mandate isn’t a tax." Sorry, it is. Chief justice said so. "Speaking on CNN’s 'State of the Union' Sunday morning, White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew said the mandate penalty is not a tax and the Supreme Court ruling didn’t make it so. And in any event, he said, very few people will have to pay it." None of that is true. There is, perhaps, a silver lining. You've heard all the governors saying they're not gonna implement the law. That's the Medicare expansion business. Now, that is kind of interesting. But, again, you gotta remember who we're dealing with now.

We're dealing with people don't care about the law. Obama himself granted amnesty to a million people a couple weeks ago when he, a couple of years ago, admitted he didn't have the power to do that constitutionally. But now it's an election year, so guess what? I'll just go ahead and declare amnesty for these people, even though the Constitution says he didn't have the authority. The Medicare expansion is quite... see, one of the ways that the federal government was able to, quote, unquote, keep the costs down on ObamaTax was two things. First, they cut Medicare by $500 billion. But then they put it back in, in the form of the states having to share almost all of the new burden on Medicaid. So Obama promises all of this health insurance for the 30 million uninsured, now the free riders, spoken with contempt by Pelosi, her own voters, the party of free riders, the party of freeloaders. They can't survive without free riders.

That tax is being set up to punish the working young in this country who probably cannot afford insurance to begin with. All the free loaders are on the welfare roles and in Washington, DC. Only a freeloader could spout such garbage.

The ObamaCare tax punishes "free riders" who don't want to pay extra for abortion and contraception coverage, "free riders" who want to pay for their own preventative care and routine checkups and only want high-deductible insurance for catastrophic events, and "free riders" whose likelihood of needing the Cadillac insurance plans mandated is so low that they would prefer to pay less of their money and get less comprehensive coverage or a higher co-payment if they do need medical care. Obama himself argued that the only way to pay for ObamaCare was to shift the cost to healthy young people who cost little to insure but who would be charged the same as more expensive insurance customers, and the only way to convince them to buy insurance would be by force.

The real free riders are the parasites who want the young and the productive to pay for their ObamaCare. As usual, the liberals are resorting to name calling to bully the young and the productive into acting against their own interests. Fortunately, that tactic is losing its effectiveness.

These free riders make health insurance for those who are taking responsibility making it more expensive.

However, the biggest class of free-riders are non-citizens, and these will continue to be free-riders, without penalty/tax.

How can the Government —Constitutionally— penalise me for not buying something I don’t want to buy.?

The answer is: They cannot. So Pelosi and Obama decided to do it anyway. The Constitution is just a piece of toilet paper to these people.

It also might punish the ultra-rich, who could be theoretically self-insured. They should not have to buy health insurance if they have the assets to pay for whatever medical care costs they might incur. Actually this would apply to ALL income “classes”, to have the right to pay cash as you go for your health care. But that will no longer be an option, it seems.

I have a solution for you Nancy, you idiot: then don’t pay for their healthcare.

That’s right - if they are trying to “freeload” off others then let them get sick or let them die.

Problem solved.

If you don't work, you get it for free.

If you do work, you have to pay for it, and for the people getting it for free.

Such a deal.

However, the biggest class of free-riders are non-citizens, and these will continue to be free-riders, without penalty/tax.

Right! This has been my thought since Thursday. Illegals don't have a SS# (or if they do, it's fraudulent), which means they don't pay income taxes ... but will continue to utilize hospital emergency rooms as their method of health care.

And what of the 47% ± of households that don't pay any taxes now as it is?! Will they be getting an additional tax credit so their health insurance premiums are paid for, as well?

However, the biggest class of free-riders are non-citizens, and these will continue to be free-riders, without penalty/tax. Right! This has been my thought since Thursday. Illegals don't have a SS# (or if they do, it's fraudulent), which means they don't pay income taxes ... but will continue to utilize hospital emergency rooms as their method of health care.
And what of the 47% ± of households that don't pay any taxes now as it is?! Will they be getting an additional tax credit so their health insurance premiums are paid for, as well?

Those are all problems that will emerge once Obamacare kicks in; when they do emerge, we'll be regaled with horror stories and haranged about how we have to have Obamacare II in order to solve the problems that were not solved by Obamacare I due to opposition from the TEA party.

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