This weekend on the pundit shows (except FOX) President Obama pitched the same spiel on health care reform which is chalk full of inaccuracies. For example, a revenue neutral bill. How can you give 30-50 million people health insurance or health care without it costing money? The neutral part comes in taxes or mandates. A tax is defined as: noun
| 1. |
a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc. |
| 2. |
a burdensome charge, obligation, duty, or demand. |
–verb (used with object)
| 3. |
(of a government)
| a. |
to demand a tax from (a person, business, etc.). |
| b. |
to demand a tax in consideration of the possession or occurrence of (income, goods, sales, etc.), usually in proportion to the value of money involved. |
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| 4. |
to lay a burden on; make serious demands on: to tax one’s resources. |
| 5. |
to take to task; censure; reprove; accuse: to tax one with laziness. |
| 6. |
Informal. to charge: What did he tax you for that? |
| 7. |
Archaic. to estimate or determine the amount or value of. |
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tax
Thus, forcing people to purchase insurance is a tax. These type of taxes are referred to as mandates. Mandates are the same as forcing someone to purchase insurance and thus is a tax.
On Sunday George Stephanopolus ask President Obama about forcing people who don’t want to buy insurance if they were being taxed. The President was caught off guard and in typical socialistic fashion debated whether this was a tax or not!!! When you force people to pay for something they don’t choose it is a tax.
Huge middle-class tax increase:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgBzmoo9izw
How can we trust this president?