Tell Us Lies, Tell Us Sweet Little Lies

Legal Insurrection:

There were two important developments recently in the continued unraveling of the Obamacare public relations BS.

First, the Obama administration cemented its legal position that the health care mandate is a tax, which means that Obama is raising taxes on people making less than $250,000 a year contrary to his campaign promise.

Second, the promise that you could keep your doctor is evaporating as health insurers, in a desperate attempt to keep down premiums under the burden of Obamacare requirements, are reformulating their plans by limiting choice of physicians.

Read Obama's Tax Lips

Read Obama's lips: I will not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 per year.

Read Obama's lips: The health care mandate is not a tax, so even though people making less than $250,000 per year have to pay it, I have kept my promise.

Read the Obama administration's legal defense of the mandate:

When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”
And that power, they say, is even more sweeping than the federal power to regulate interstate commerce.

Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate, now being challenged in court by more than 20 states and several private organizations.

You see, it all depends on what the meaning of "is" "tax" is.

He will say anything, because he doesn't really care whether it is a tax or not.

He just wants to force you to pay it.

You Cannot Keep Your Doctor, Sucker

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