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Dems Ask For Delay To Obamacare Med Device Tax They Voted For In The First Place
Americans For Tax Reform ^ | 12/11 | John Kartch

Posted on 12/12/2012 12:04:59 AM PST by Lmo56

In a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid, 18 Democrat senators and senators-elect have asked for “a delay in the implementation” of the Obamacare medical device tax. Like most of the significant tax increases in Obamacare, the medical device tax is scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2013, conveniently after the 2012 presidential election.

Each of the 18 Democrat signatories voted for or supported Obamacare in the first place. And now they want a sweetheart exemption from one of its most onerous provisions. Even in Washington DC, that shows a lot of gall.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; corruption; democrats; fail; fubo; fudemocrats; healthcare; liberalhypocrisy; liberalism; medicaldeicetax; medicaldevice; medicaldevices; obama; obamacare; socialistdemocrats; taxes
What a bunch of Maroons ...
1 posted on 12/12/2012 12:05:12 AM PST by Lmo56
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To: Lmo56

THEY OWN IT..........MAKE THEM SQUIRM.........


2 posted on 12/12/2012 12:07:42 AM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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Too much commie crap to swallow at one time...


3 posted on 12/12/2012 12:14:45 AM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Lmo56
Tell me when Congress goes on Christmas recess, and I'll tell you when the Republicans will cave to Obama.
4 posted on 12/12/2012 12:51:46 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Soon the "invisible hand" will press the economic "reset" button.)
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To: Lmo56

Running for re election?


5 posted on 12/12/2012 1:37:58 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Lmo56

The exempt Dingy Harry runs Commiecare™? Pretty scary...


6 posted on 12/12/2012 2:40:25 AM PST by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: Lmo56

Bump


7 posted on 12/12/2012 2:41:19 AM PST by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: Lmo56

What’s the matter? Don’t want those businesses in your hood to stop donating?


8 posted on 12/12/2012 2:58:00 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Lmo56

Drip, drip, drip, the un-ravelling of Obamacare continues. It’s about the potential loss of votes. Down the road, they’ll have to deal with the $750 fine soon to be foisted on young workers who have chosen to not have health insurance, who will have to fork it over or go get a policy.

Some thirty states will in the end not have a state exchange, and the federal exchange is not funded, nor will it be. This means there’s no mechanism to help the poor acquire their insurance policy. Death blow to Obamacare, and possibly to Obama’s popularity, if he pushes forward.


9 posted on 12/12/2012 3:43:28 AM PST by wayoverontheright
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To: Lmo56

Why are these idiots asking for a delay?
The tax is onerous and stinking up the place.

Why arent they asking it be removed, made verboten, done away with.

Taxing the sick and handicapped , what a way to run a country.


10 posted on 12/12/2012 4:14:19 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Lmo56

Senator fill-in-the-blank -

You voted for a tax increase that would take effect after the election. Now that your candidate is re-elected you now want the tax implementation postponed? Why? Is it that you didn’t anticipate the impact of the tax before you voted for it? Or was it an imagined thriving economy planted in wishful projections, where a medical device tax would get lost in the high clover? Perhaps you’ve got a blind spot for unintended consequences? Or maybe it is this: You think that just enough of us are just stupid enough. Any which way, the Affordable Care Act’s foreseeable turmoil is just beginning to manifest itself. There’s only so much you’ll be able to walk back. So I suggest you keep your powder dry and wait until you see what else is in the bill. Maybe Nancy Pelosi can help you with that.


11 posted on 12/12/2012 4:16:09 AM PST by BillyBonebrake
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To: Lmo56
Hey!
Demon-Rats,

:wq
12 posted on 12/12/2012 5:08:58 AM PST by Peet (Alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst zwei hat. (Monroe in "Grimm"))
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The House can put the repeal of that tax in a bill along with the repeal of the rest of that pile of crap. Tell Reid: “Here is what you asked for.”


13 posted on 12/12/2012 5:21:45 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Lmo56

Interesting... look at the states these idiots are from:

MN, NC, MN, WI, MD, MA, NY, NY, PA, NE, MI, NH, IL, CO, WA, MA, CO, IN.

Only one southern state, NC. And surprisingly, nobody from CA.

Link to the letter they signed:
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/MedDeviceLetter12102012.pdf

Note that Lizzy Warren signed it as Senator - Elect.


14 posted on 12/12/2012 6:17:41 AM PST by upchuck (America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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Would finding out how many of these people are INVESTED in the Med Device companies be appropriate?

Seems to me they may be "confused" as to how this tax will affect their bottom line dividend.

"confused" as in, we did not read the bill before we passed it. We thought it only applied to "THEM", not us.

Maybe they just have not found the way to "Pass the Tax" on yet and need more time.

15 posted on 12/12/2012 6:39:40 AM PST by annieokie
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To: Lmo56

Where is it written that one senator has the authority to delay the implementation of new laws?

Where are the republicans?

I will NEVER vote for another republican.


16 posted on 12/12/2012 8:38:13 AM PST by Terry Mross (I don't watch the "news". Someone ping me if something big happens.)
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To: Terry Mross
Where are the republicans? I will NEVER vote for another republican.

I am with you. As a lifelong Republican I switched to Ind in 2006 after the shellacking the GOP took in Congress after Bush would not defend anything he did, and handed the House to Piglosi and the Senate even divided between GOP and RAT, but with two Ind caucusing with the RATS allowing RATS to control both chambers.
17 posted on 12/12/2012 11:20:36 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Lmo56

Nope. They supported it. They can deal with the consequences they denied existed.


18 posted on 12/12/2012 2:41:57 PM PST by matt04
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To: annieokie

Good point.


19 posted on 12/12/2012 8:26:49 PM PST by upchuck (America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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