On Obamacare, I Won't Comply
Americans know instinctively that when liberals start talking about deficit reduction that’s it’s just a case of the fantods, as Huckleberry Finn would say. And say what you will about old Huck, but he knew a couple of frauds when he saw them.
No matter what liberal “Wonks” like Ezra Klein say about the historically dumb healthcare “reform” known as Obamcare, Americans are uneasy about it.
And they should be.
The best thing- as Democrat strategist James Carville admitted last year- that could have happened for the Democrats is for the Supreme Court to have tossed out the landmark legislation that bears Obama's name.
But that didn't happen, so now the Democrats are stuck trying to make another bad law work.
Obamacare supporters like Ezra Klein, instead of trying to fix the problem continue to play dirty pool when it comes to healthcare reform. They now count it as a deficit fighter, when in fact, it’s no such thing.
Unless of course you count any bill with a tax increase in it as a deficit fighter. A defense contract could be a deficit fighter too, if a defense contract was designed just like Obamacare.
Here let me show you the slight of hand that liberals did to claim Obamacare fights the deficit.
Say, for example, that when we decommission the old Nimitz-class carriers we then replace them with the newer Gerald Ford class of carriers at $15 billion a clip. Let’s say, in this example, that we then raise taxes 3.8 percent on people who go over a certain income limit, to an extent that we not only pay for each carrier but we also create a surplus of $100 billion that we can apply to the deficit- just as they did in Obamcare. Actually in the case of the aircraft carriers, the exact same tax increase that the used for Obamacare would pay for the carriers and leave a surplus of $180 billion over the same period, almost twice what Obamacare claims.
John Ransom
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We are advised to never sign a document with blank spaces that can be filled in later at the option of the seller, same goes here "We the people" did not sign off on this unconstitutional obamacare bill.
"They had 60 percent of the Senate, [but] 60 percent of the American people are against this," McCain said Monday morning on "Good Morning America," referring to polls showing that much of the public is skeptical of health-care reform. "They want it stopped."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/21/AR2009122100248.html
"Here's how the House voted on the Senate health-care bill March 21. The 219-212 vote...."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/votes/house/finalhealthcare
Not important? Not important enough to look it up in an online dictionary?
I did. It took 3 seconds,
This same southern Republican gentleman also believes that the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments set the Black man back 100 years.
It will be repealed.
American People hate it.
The Feds are incapable of doing so, and the SCOTUS Obamacare decision said the Feds cannot coerce the states to do so.
The states and We the People are going to win this war. The Marxist Statists are going to lose.
The Moral Majority/Tea Party has surely been co-opted, since it's inception, by far-right economic conservatives like the Koch brothers, but those fat-cat conservatives were never actually the Moral Majority or the Tea Party's initial "roots".
It certainly wouldn't be below the character of Head-of-State Mr. Obathompson, and would be raised to the highest of ivory pedestals, (probably accompanied by a "thrill up his leg"), by MSNBC's own Bertram (Chris) Scudder!
(..............So, ...do you have a map to the Gulch?)
Next time a Republican is elected president, he or she signs off on state wide waivers for those states that either go Republican each election cycle, or are swing states.
Let the so called Blue States drown in their policies - California, Vermont, Michigan, Oregon, New York, etc, etc.
it will never pass in california. the same idiots who voted for brown as governor will vote against this.
That's easy to get around.
Just adjust your w-2 to insure you don't GET a refund. If you have to pay next April, even $1.00, there's not a whole lot the IRS can do.
just make sure you don't owe TOO much, because that can get you in trouble as well.