[a fool in paradise]

"It's a penalty because you have a choice," Carney said. "You don't have a choice to pay your taxes, right? You have a choice to buy -- if you can afford health insurance. … So if you don't buy it, and you can afford it, it is an irresponsible thing to do to ask the rest of America's taxpayers to pay for your care when you go to the emergency room. So your choice is to purchase healthcare reform or a penalty will be administered."

BULLSTALIN

If you REALLY felt that way, you would prohibit illegal aliens from sneaking across the border and then having the US taxpayer pay for the medical costs of delivering their "anchor babies".

[Fledermaus]

No Carney, you idiot, in my opinion is you don’t have insurance and can afford it then you pay the bill yourself. To hell with you if you have to sell your house or go bankrupt. Fool.

I can solve this problem with ease: no insurance, no medical treatment. You can’t pretend it would be immoral to do so and then whine about the cost.

[Iron Munro]

Carney should find out what fortress Chief Justice Roberts is hiding in, go over there and get him straightened out.

[Iron Munro]

[QT3.14]

"It's a penalty because you have a choice"

[Iron Munro]

Call it what you will.

At its heart it is just another money pump for wealth redistribution to Obama’s favored supporters and professional victim groups.

The same people who are now sucking a free ride off Uncle Sam’s teat will still be sucking a free ride when the penalty/tax kicks in.

[caper gal 1]

Dingy Harry sure thinks it's a voluntary tax system, Jake.

[caper gal 1]

Dingy Harry sure thinks it's a voluntary tax system, Jake.

Youtube vid here.

[ExCTCitizen]

It is a TAX...I could call it an orange tree...but it is STILL a TAX...

[Caipirabob]

It’s tyranny.

[Darren McCarty]

Carney, you are full of shit. If you don’t pay the “penalty”, you go to prison for five years. The crime. Tax evasion.

[Jo Nuvark]

[... So if you don’t buy it, and you can afford it,
it is irresponsible to ask America’s taxpayers to
pay for your Emergency care...]

So if you CAN work, but choose NOT to work, it is
irresponsible to ask American taxpayers to support
your lazy arse.

There! Fixed it.

[Reagan69]

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

They lie like they breath.

[headstamp 2]

It’s notta tumah!

[MarkL]

Dear Mr Carney, You might want to check with the government lawyers who argued the case before the SCOTUS. They DID argue that it WAS A TAX! It was the opposition that argued otherwise.

Of course, if you continue to insist it's not a tax, maybe the pubies will create adverts stating, "The Obama regime told US, the American public, that Obamacare wasn't a tax (show carney and obama stating it's not a tax, while government lawyers argued before the SCOTUS that it WAS a tax. Does audio of the arguments exist? It would be great in an advertisement.!

Mark

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Bottom line:

Obembacare was passed to avoid outright, civil/race war.

[halfright]

[Right Wing Assault]

If it is guaranteed to be a penalty and not a tax, then the Chief Justice Roberts should reopen case based on this new information.

[Intolerant in NJ]

...it is an irresponsible thing to do to ask the rest of America's taxpayers to pay for your care when you go to the emergency room...so the rational thing to do is to abolish the law which requires others to pay for your care in the emergency room and establish new laws to assure that you and you alone are financially responsible for that care and pay up one way or another.......