Colorado unveils Obamacare tax to boost struggling state exchange

Washington Times ^ | June 10, 2014 | Valerie Richardson

[george76]

Colorado will begin charging an Obamacare tax next month on all health insurance policies — even those obtained through private employers — to help prop up the state’s struggling health care exchange.

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Republicans have called the Obamacare tax unconstitutional, given that the state’s constitution requires voters to approve any tax increases, but exchange managers insist it’s a fee, not a tax.

[Moonman62]

Why don’t they use their pot revenue to pay for Obamacare?

[laplata]

My family came to Colo. in 1859 and you are right on.

They ruin one place and can’t stand the crappy mess they’ve created and move on and ruin the next place. But they don’t understand or recognize why they don’t like their own crap.

[MileHi]

Can I pay it in spent lead?

[nascarnation]

Have to apologize for my idiot liberal niece.
Broke up with her “domestic partner” and couldn’t afford to live in SF anymore, so moved to Denver.

[SpeakerToAnimals]

Your family beat mine to the state by sixty years. Our home town of Salida is full of sixties hippies from all over the country.

[laplata]

I bet she lives on what’s called “Capitol Hill” in Denver. That’s the big gay and lesbian area. She’ll easily find another partner. (No apologies needed, friend. But thanks)

[demshateGod]

I seriously doubt your last point. I don’t care what your stats show.

I lived in Denver 7 years ago. When you got out of the metro, into South Park and beyond, you met real mountain people. I never made it to the Western Slope, but it was always considered conservative back then. I was only in Co for 4 years and saw the shift in the Metro.

[laplata]

Our home town of Salida is full of sixties hippies from all over the country.
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What a coincidence! Salida is where my great grandfather settled. They came from Ohio. When the Rail Road came in, he became a Conductor. He and my great grandmother are buried in Salida.

He invested in some mines and made enough to send my grandfather to CU on Boulder where he graduated from the law school in 1904. The CU of then was not like the CU of today. LOL

[SpeakerToAnimals]

My great grandfather was a cowboy on the Baca Grande. He rode a horse from Tennessee. My Grandfather was an engineer on the railroad. My maternal grandfather was a rail repair man in Browns Canyon.

[laplata]

Neat. Thanks for sharing that. Those old folks would be disgusted if they could see what’s going on today.

They’d probably smack us around for letting it get this bad.

[SpeakerToAnimals]

Indeed they would!

[familyop]

It’s only a fee, like those impact, engineering and permit fees that those not “all grandfathered in” are already forced to pay in CO. Enjoy.

[familyop]

...not to mention the property tax hikes without a cause.

[familyop]

"When you got out of the metro, into South Park and beyond, you met real mountain people."

South Park? If by that you are referring to animal worshiping environmentalists who used local government to rob a real rancher. The place is regulated up like cities in the northeast. Imagine paying an approximately $800 "impact fee" before being allowed to get a building permit. Imagine being required to have everything engineered--even a barn.

There's a much freer County close to SpeakerToAnimals. I'm not going to write the name of that freer County to a public discussion board, because afterwards, it would be quickly regulated up and defiled by the socialist political/regulator class.

[familyop]

I was referring to a freer County close to that “home town,” BTW—not Denver. But yeah, suburban culture folks from the northeast took over the Range long ago (including those northeasterners not long descended from Europe, who hopped to California before hopping here). Most counties are like little commie states.

[MtnClimber]

I will move to another state first. FU cHickenchoker!