Posted on 07/01/2012 7:18:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Never mind what the Supreme Court said — the White House is doubling down on its insistence that the individual mandate isn’t a tax.
Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning, White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew said the mandate penalty is not a tax and the Supreme Court ruling didn’t make it so. And in any event, he said, very few people will have to pay it.
“First of all, the law is clear, it’s called a penalty. Second of all, what the Supreme Court ruled is that the law is constitutional. Actually, they didn’t call it a tax. They said it was using the power under the constitution that permits it. It was not labeled,” Lew said.
“This is a penalty. It’s something that only 1 percent of people who can afford insurance and choose not to get it will pay. Everyone who has insurance, everyone who chooses to buy insurance will not pay it. That’s a good thing for the American people.”
In the commercial break that followed the exchange, an ad paid for by Americans for Prosperity called the Obama health care law “one of the biggest tax increases in history.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
It's NOT a tax!
The Supreme Court is wrong but he appreciates their help ruling in favor of his individual mandate anyway.
And you need 16000 extra IRS agents for that? What does the IRS do? It collects taxes, you dope. “Taxation by Misrepresentation” continues.
We can’t let the Dems off the hook. They crammed ObamaTax Health Control down our throats by lying and more lying and still lying. They used the ‘tax’ argument before the Supreme Court ... we need to remind the Lews of this world about that every time they say “it’s not a tax, it’s a penalty”. Then why in h.e.dbl hockeysticks did you defend it as a TAX?
“It’s a TAX” needs to be reciprocally crammed down their throats at every single opportunity .... and we need to make a lot of opportunities.
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“It’s something that only 1 percent of people who can afford insurance and choose not to get it will pay.”
Those evil 1 percenters again. They must all be kajillionaires if they’re expected to carry the weight of this boondoggle.
For the president to go on record that this is a fee..after the supreme court has ruled specifically that it’s a tax; could this not be ruled contempt of court, or to make the decision voidable?
More misrepresentation. What the Court ruled is that the law can not be ruled unconstitutional based on the specific challenges launched in this case, not that it is constitutional based on the entire Constitution. Second, the court did specifically call ObamaCare's mandate a tax - numerous times - saying that it is only Constitutional under the power to tax. When Obama gets tired of lying, he sends his minions out to lie for him. Liberals disgust me.
OK what word are the Dems using in place of word TAX ?
“And you need 16000 extra IRS agents for that? What does the IRS do? It collects taxes, you dope. ‘Taxation by Misrepresentation’ continues.”
This is quite possibly one of the most brilliant things ever, and I do mean ever, said about Obamacareless. It wasn’t said by a talking head. It wasn’t said by some politician misery-pimping for another term-—this was said by an everyday citizen. There is no purer form of wisdom. The fat, bloated pigs in the federal government make laws that they don’t have to live by and therefore have no clue.
+1 gazillion, zillion! OOOORAH!
BREAKING: Due to Robert’s ACA ruling, Government can now place a “special tax” on Rearden Metal.
—the White House is doubling down on its insistence that the individual mandate isn’t a tax. —
Then the SCOTUS says I don’t have to pay it if it’s not a tax.
Remember the scene from “AI” where the little robot kid is begging the statue of the Blue Fairy to make him real?
Can some talented freeper artist whip up a pic with Obama begging the Supreme Court/John Roberts Blue Fairy to make the tax a ‘mandate’?
>>It’s NOT a tax!
The Supreme Court is wrong but he appreciates their help ruling in favor of his individual mandate anyway.<<
Why doesn’t someone ask the Harkonnen boys “Please answer this: under WHAT power did the USC find the individual mandate consitutional?”
But that would be too much for the obama-fellaciating press.
Or, alternatively, the Obama Regime does not intend to abide by the USSC decision.
The regime can spin it any way they like....millions of dollars will be spent reminding people of the TRUTH—the Supreme Court ONLY let the.law stand based upon the power to levy a TAX.
OBAMUGABE IS SCREWED.
The Dems/Team Obama strategy is to muddle things.
As Britt Hume said on FNS, they are trying as hard as they can to keep from calling Obamacare a ‘tax’; they are running from that.
McConnell claimed that all 60 Dem senators who voted FOR Obamacare were voting for a TAX.
Since SCJ Roberts basically called Obamacare a tax, the Dems are having difficulty — recall Obama’s claim that Obamacare would not add one ‘dime’ of taxes to the middle class?
[Hmmm.... this ruling may turn out to be Obama’s ‘read my lips, no new taxes’ albatross.]
And not doubt these will be touted as "new jobs" by this crowd.
It’s a tax.
And the Feds cannot force the monies onto the States, in order to force the States to expand Medicaid
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