Obama solicitor general: If you don't like mandate, earn less money

The Washington Examiner ^ | Philip Klein

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

President Obama's solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn't like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

So, the Obama administration's defense of the National Health Care Law is that people can always choose to opt out by living in poverty and letting others pay for their care.

Okey-dokey!

[LachlanMinnesota]

I am hearing, “So go Galt, if you dare.”

[MNGal]

Let them eat cake.... (Nothing wrong with making a conscious choice to live on the taxpayer’s dole, is there?)

[IMR 4350]

Worst part is, it makes perfect sense to the loony left.

[MizSterious]

Or, in other words, Let them eat cake. We all remember what happened after an infamous tyrant said that...

[Mr. K]

I am thinking this is going to make for a great campaign ad~!

(for Palin/Bachman)

[DesertRhino]

I wonder if the supremes hear things like that the way we do. As utterly offensive.

[MizSterious]

Hah, we both had the same thought!

[Scotsman will be Free]

Pretty amazing isn’t it?

[newheart]

The more you make the more we'll take.

The more you make the less you'll keep.

The more there is for me and my peeps.

Or you could just earn less.

[beethovenfan]

FUBO !!

[Noumenon]

Go Galt - good idea. You can starve the monkeys right here. Galt's Gulch is now a state of mind and a plan of action.

[oldbrowser]

For instance, the example that's come up often is the idea of a law in which government forces individuals to eat broccoli.

I can foresee someone arguing that women can only have one child as an addendum to Obamacare. It would be a logical extension for the liberals to come up with in a few years if the law is not overturned.

[Twotone]

Yes, it would.

And I have another one. I went to my local Republican meeting last night to see a 2010 candidate (who lost, unfortunately) talking about what you need to be aware of to decide to run for any office. He said he’d been thinking about running, but what put him over the top was this: sitting & watching the news with his 12yr old son about the debt. His son turned & looked at him and asked, “Dad, am I going to have to pay for that?!” That is an obvious counter to the ‘granny over the cliff’ ads the Dems have been running!

[atomic_dog]

Keep the money and buy guns and ammo.

[Gator113]

Sometimes words fail me... this is one of those times.

[Rocky]

This is really from The Onion, isn’t it? Or the Marx Brothers?

I’m speechless.

[Jeff Chandler]

Another soundbite writes itself. But the Republicans will twist this one too into a somnolent soliloquy.

[theBuckwheat]

Personnel is policy. The government drone is only telling us all we need to know about his “corporate culture” and policy ideology. Pure tyranny. This should be an impeachable incident.

[FLAMING DEATH]

If I earn less money, then how can I afford to buy a hybrid?