“You can’t do it politically. You just literally can not do it. Transparent financing...I mean this bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes the bill dies. Okay so it was written to do that. ....Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever but basically that was really really critical to get this thing to pass...”
There are a few videos of this guy saying things that should in themselves cause repeal. The sad thing is somehow, someway it will be deemed inadmissible.
Much obliged for the transcript.
This starts at 20:35 folks.
A statement like that leaves no doubt at all about the totalitarian “Master over slave” mentality that pervades all politics in Wash. DC today.