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White House Doubles Down: ObamaTax Not a Tax (Title should be: White House Spins)
Townhall.com ^
| July 1, 2012
| Katie Pavlich
Posted on 07/01/2012 2:22:12 PM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
07/01/2012 2:22:21 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
They’re spinning so fast they should be dizzy by now.
Spin, spin, spin, drain, drain, bye-bye.
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posted on
07/01/2012 2:24:20 PM PDT
by
TribalPrincess2U
(54,000,000 0bama's people on welfare and food stamps?)
To: Kaslin
We now live in an era when the federal government can do whatever it wants and call it anything it wants to call it.
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posted on
07/01/2012 2:24:30 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Kaslin
If it is not a tax then ObamaKare is not legal as defined by SCOTUS and can’t be implemented.
Case closed.
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posted on
07/01/2012 2:25:55 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(John Adams: 'Two ways to enslave a country. One is by the sword, the other is by debt')
To: TribalPrincess2U
Obama Admin changes TAX to PENALTY , try fool the people by changing WORDS LOL
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posted on
07/01/2012 2:30:30 PM PDT
by
molson209
To: Kaslin
The whole Dem spin is it is a penalty for the middle class and a tip from the 1%.
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posted on
07/01/2012 2:33:02 PM PDT
by
chuckee
To: TribalPrincess2U
Theyre spinning so fast they should be dizzy by now.
I haven’t ‘trusted’ any of these SOB’s for so long that I still don’t know what to ‘think’ of Roberts’ decision.
In one respect, he did put them in a kind of quandry where if they don’t call it a tax, it is illegal and if they do it discredits them even in their own eyes.
If you remember Nixon’s ‘wage and price freeze’, it wasn’t long before they had the same product, just new and improved so they could ‘raise’ the price, several ‘new’ cuts of meat were invented etc and if you wanted a raise all you had to do was ‘quit’ and get hired back to the same job for more money when rehired....
Yes, Nixon was probably the ‘original’ RINO but he was only the 2nd R in my lifetime, with Ike being the 1st.
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posted on
07/01/2012 2:40:00 PM PDT
by
xrmusn
(6/98 "Hopefully this administration is a "bad dream" - think the Newhart show.")
To: Kaslin
Aw, if they didn’t want it to be law in the first place, they shouldn’t have passed it, yes?
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posted on
07/01/2012 2:43:07 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Kaslin
To: Kaslin
From now to November - any conservative posting on forums like this to being in front of a TV camera on LIVE need to join OBAMACARE + TAX and call it OBAMACARE TAX
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posted on
07/01/2012 2:46:37 PM PDT
by
TheShaz
To: Kaslin
What would anyone whose sperm donor was a commie maggot from Kenya know about anything? If the Supreme Court says it’s a tax, IT’S A TAX.
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posted on
07/01/2012 2:46:49 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Dude! Where's my Constitution?!)
To: Kaslin
If it's not a tax - it has to be overturned. Congress doesn't have the authority any other way.
Just say "NO" to the Oboma tax.
No new entitlement programs!
To: Kaslin
Just following the lead of Roberts in his opinion. First, it wasn’t a tax and then it was a tax.
To: Kaslin
The Washington spin machine is going to reverse the magnetic poles!
Obama is defying SCOTUS by calling it a penalty, they abhor it being labeled EXACTLY what it is...
A TAX
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posted on
07/01/2012 2:52:24 PM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
(Is your state Obamacare free yet?)
To: Kaslin
For the last few years, the White House and Congress had been telling us this was a penalty. At the same time, the White House lawyers were arguing to the Supreme Court (out of necessity) that it was a tax.
They’re trying to have it both ways, and should be called on it.
I’m not holding my breath.
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posted on
07/01/2012 2:53:03 PM PDT
by
Egon
(The difference between Theory and Practice: In Theory, there is no difference.)
To: Kaslin
It's a tax. Liberals have long played with words to obfuscate, distract and fool the voters. It often works, too. This time, the Democrats are in a corner. If they call the mandate 'penalty' a tax, people are repulsed. If they lie and call it a 'penalty' it's no longer constitutional. So, Obama administration mouthpieces are reduced to saying that the tax that renders Obamacare constitutional isn't really a tax at all. This confuses and annoys the electorate and makes the Obama administration look ridiculous, which it always has been. Up until now, most people pretended not to notice. That is no longer possible. It's a tax - and we all know it.
To: Eye of Unk
And doesn’t every TAX bill have to originate in the House? IIRC, Obamacare DID NOT—and thus the passage of it was a usurpation of power by the Senate. This is a fact that MUST be trumpeted by the Pubs— loud and clear!
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posted on
07/01/2012 2:58:16 PM PDT
by
milagro
(There is no peace in appeasement.)
To: Kaslin
I have a question:
People with children get a per-child tax break. Those of us without children pay full tax.
So, is the White House saying that I’m paying an unwritten penalty for not having my own children?
Or is it that I’m just paying full tax and people with children are not assessed a penalty fee?
I’m......so confused. What the hell is going on, here?
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posted on
07/01/2012 2:59:27 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Future generations will curse what we've done to them.)
To: milagro
“This is a fact that MUST be trumpeted by the Pubs loud and clear!”
I hate to mention this to you but the republican leadership helped pass the healthcare bill, and I mean the leadership in both houses.
The republicans WANTED this bill to pass just as much as the democrats.
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posted on
07/01/2012 3:03:10 PM PDT
by
stockpirate
(No longer proud to be an American! SCOTUS is just as corrupt as congress. IMPEACH ROBERTS!)
To: Kaslin
Ya can’t have it be a tax to make it legal, but not a tax to not be a tax increase. I guess ol’ Obama just likes to have it both ways. Just saying.
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posted on
07/01/2012 3:04:34 PM PDT
by
fhayek
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