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Another $17 trillion surprise found in Obamacare
The Daily Caller ^ | 3/30/12 | Neil Munro

Posted on 03/30/2012 10:00:53 AM PDT by Nachum

Senate Republican staffers continue to look though the 2010 health care reform law to see what’s in it, and their latest discovery is a massive $17 trillion funding gap.

“The more we learn about the bill, the more we learn it is even more unaffordable than was suspected,” said Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Republican’s budget chief in the Senate.

“The bill has to be removed from the books because we don’t have the money,” he said.

The hidden shortfall between new spending and new taxes was revealed just after Supreme Court justices grilled the law’s supporters about its compliance with the Constitution’s limits on government activity. If the court doesn’t strike down the law, it will force taxpayers find another $17 trillion to pay for the increased spending.

The $17 trillion in extra promises was revealed by an analysis of the law’s long-term requirements. The additional obligations, when combined with existing Medicare and Medicaid funding shortfalls, leaves taxpayers on the hook for an extra $82 trillion in health care obligations over the next 75 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 17trillion; found; healthcare; obama; obamacare; obamacarefundinggap; obamathreatensscotus; scotusocareanalysis; surprise; trillion
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To: Neidermeyer
The highest current US denomination is $100

$1000 bills exist. They are just no longer in circulation.

assuming there is very little compression from the weight of the money

The math relies on .0043 inches, the thickness of a US paper note.

101 posted on 03/30/2012 3:53:54 PM PDT by South40 (Mitt is full of Shtt)
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To: presently no screen name

I doubt very seriously that 100% of Freepers would’ve voted for Ronald Reagan given all of his “faults.”


102 posted on 03/30/2012 3:54:37 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Nachum

This bill is pure treason.


103 posted on 03/30/2012 3:55:50 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Burning the Quran is a waste of perfectly good fire.)
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To: sam_paine
"100% of Freepers"

Nop, wasn't 100 percent - was 96% - the other four percent were self described 'libertarian.'

104 posted on 03/30/2012 4:02:41 PM PDT by Ron C.
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To: andy58-in-nh
The entire GDP of the United States is currently about $14 trillion. The projected liabilities to be incurred as a result of ObamaCare are not only unsupportable, even in the short-run, they are entirely impossible without provoking complete economic collapse.

Can U say."Cloward-Piven?"

105 posted on 03/30/2012 4:33:47 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Qbert

Now that we’ve found out what’s in the bill,somebody get a rope....


106 posted on 03/30/2012 5:07:29 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Nachum

Isn’t that the GDP of the entire world?


107 posted on 03/30/2012 6:05:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: carriage_hill

googolplex — one followed by a googol (10 to the 100) of zeros...


108 posted on 03/30/2012 8:00:07 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Nachum

Obamacare... the gift that just keeps taking.


109 posted on 03/30/2012 8:01:15 PM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: Nachum
‘I guess its time to ask: What comes after Trillion? Zillion? BZillion?’ Silly rabbit. Everyone knows it is Gazillion.

It doesn't really matter because when it gets to that point, the exchange rate will be in cans of beans and Bic lighters. And that truth comes from someone who lived through it in Bosnia.

110 posted on 03/30/2012 8:12:00 PM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: sam_paine

Your probably right about that. We seem to have unusually high standards theses days. Very much unrealistic given our current situation.


111 posted on 03/30/2012 8:48:19 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Nachum

The US GDP is $14.6 Trillion. That means the bill is short by more than the entire amount of money the economy generates in a year.

That is like going to the grocery store for the month and spending $1000 but your income is only $500. And, you didn’t buy any gas, pay rent, nothing.

After a while, you would run out of overdraws to go to the grocery store and then you starve and die.


112 posted on 03/30/2012 8:51:14 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Nachum
Just rename it “The Zimmerman Bill” and all of Obama’s supporters will want to kill it.
113 posted on 03/30/2012 9:09:25 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (A day without Obama is like a day without a Tsunami.)
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To: sam_paine
I doubt very seriously that 100% of Freepers would’ve voted for Ronald Reagan given all of his “faults.”

You mean that divorced Hollywood movie star? The 'self righteous' and Rick would be beside themselves.

114 posted on 03/30/2012 9:32:06 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Kickass Conservative

LOL!! Good one!


115 posted on 03/30/2012 9:33:02 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Nachum

BOHICA


116 posted on 03/30/2012 10:08:15 PM PDT by Huskerfan44
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To: presently no screen name
Yep. And don't forget... Reagan was a DEMOCRAT!!!

Only a true Catholic saint, complete with holy miracle granted by G-d himself, is worthy of our vote. Any who do not meet this criteria is a demonspawn of SATAN and must be purged from existence.

117 posted on 03/30/2012 10:41:10 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: gogogodzilla

There is no saint running - you need to change the channel or go back in your hole, you’ve been duped!


118 posted on 03/30/2012 10:49:35 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

Looks like I forgot the [sarc] tag on my post.

I agree with your post... and was channeling the Saint Santorum supporter’s logic.


119 posted on 03/30/2012 11:18:13 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: Nachum

Clearly, the healthcare bill only had one goal in mind from the beginning...

Overload the system, and over-regulate private enterprise to the point of nationwide economic collapse.

It was NEVER about health care.


120 posted on 03/30/2012 11:20:30 PM PDT by Safrguns
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