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Thanks to Obamacare my health insurance costs more, has higher deductibles, and forces me into a plan with coverage I don't need. Now my state taxes are going to go up. Pelosi was right we had to pass this bill to see what was in it.
1 posted on 05/18/2015 6:11:50 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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Pelosi was right we had to pass this bill to see what was in it.

Nowadays, most laws are like that, because even if the text of the law is known, the regulations that agencies will write are unknown (See "EPA"). But, this law is even more obscure than usual, because it was so huge that almost no one who voted on it (or their staff) was able or willing to read it.

2 posted on 05/18/2015 6:17:03 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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This is what happens when the public is economically illiterate and appear to have a suicidal tendency to elect economic illiterates to rule over them.


3 posted on 05/18/2015 6:27:57 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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The Health Insurance Providers Fee was aimed at insurance companies. The thinking went: Because insurers would gain a windfall of customers, they ought to help pay for the expansion of coverage. Insurers say they have raised prices for individuals and small businesses to cover the new tax.

As it turns out, they are raising their prices to state Medicaid programs, too.

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This is the way fascism works in our country. Or call it crony capitalism, or socialism for that matter.


5 posted on 05/18/2015 6:30:12 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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A tax or fee on a company, even minimum wage, translates to a tax passed on to the public. Every idiot should know this by now.


7 posted on 05/18/2015 8:13:57 AM PDT by fruser1
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