Right Wing Obamacare Myths DEBUNKED

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via The Matt Walsh Blog

“Man, I hate these stupid, crazy, tea bagging right wingers. So foolish, so uncivilized. They run around screaming like crazed anarchists about how they want to stop Obamacare. Damned idiots don’t realize that the government needs to be involved in our health care decisions; we’re too helpless and feeble to handle it ourselves — unless we’re making the “medical” choice to get an abortion, in which case, THIS IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, YOU GOVERNMENT PIGS. GET OUT! I mean, leave your wallet on the table, ’cause I’m gonna need you to pay for this, but then GET OUT, JERK.

“There are many scare tactics being used by the tea baggers in an effort to discredit Obamacare. Personally, I hate scare tactics. You should never let anyone scare you away from supporting socialized medicine, mostly because without it every poor person in the country will get sick and die. Anyway, like I said, I disapprove of scare tactics.

“They claim that Obamacare will raise taxes, but this has been PROVEN false so many times. You know it’s been proven because I capitalized “proven.” Sure, there might be a few minor billion dollar taxes, like the individual mandate tax and the employer mandate tax, the Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans, the Tax on Health Insurers, the Tax on Innovator Drug Companies, the High Medical Bills Tax, the Medicine Cabinet Tax, the Tax on Indoor Tanning Services, and the Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals. And, yeah, there might be a small number of multi-billion dollar tax hikes on things like the Medicare Payroll tax and the “black liquor” tax and the HSA Withdrawal tax. And, OK fine, we’ll even see some tax deduction eliminations, like the deduction for employer-provided retirement prescription drug coverage.

“But besides, like, 20 new taxes and tax hikes totaling, like, hundreds of billions of dollars, there aren’t ANY tax increases attached to Obamacare. None. NONE. See? I did the capital letter thing again. Pretty convincing stuff.

“The redneck Tea Party crazies have even gone so far as to completely LIE about the impact Obamacare will have on the workforce. They insist that businesses are actually being forced to cut hours and lay off employees just to comply with the “burdensome” Obamacare rules and regulations. Again, this is a fabrication. Businesses aren’t cutting hours. Besides Walmart, Regal Entertainment, Trader Joe’s, Subway, Firehouse Subs, Sea World, Lands End, Dave and Busters, White Castle, Burger King, Taco Bell, and Home Depot, and academic institutions like Philadelphia University, Sam Houston State University, Ball State University, Georgia Military College, Three Rivers College, Hillsborough Community College, and University of North Alabama, and county governments in Indiana, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Michigan, Maryland, and Virginia, as well as school districts like Middletown Township Public Schools in New Jersey, Millard School District in Utah, and Shelbyville Central School System in Indiana, along with over 280 other businesses, universities, school systems and town governments, literally NOBODY is losing work because of Obamacare.”

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If OBAMACARE is the “Law of the Land,” …

1. why does the President keep finding portions he wants to delay? It’s ONE Law … either it is LAW or it isn’t??? Another section delayed just today! (9/26/13)




2. why does the President keep making EXEMPTIONS for his friends in BIG BUSINESS (GE, GOOGLE, etc) and more importantly, for CONGRESS (large gov’t subsidies), and for friendly HOLLYWOOD celebs?




3. what gives PRESIDENT OBAMA the authority to PICK & CHOOSE which PARTS of the LAW to ENFORCE and what parts NOT to ENFORCE? WHO MADE HIM KING?

Awaiting answers …

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Knishes and Taxes ~ A cautionary tale

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JUN 08, 2012, VOL. 17, NO. 38 • BY IRWIN M. STELZER

via The Weekly Standard

This is a tale of knishes, taxes, and conservatives’ hopes to replace income and capital gains taxes with a national sales tax on consumption. Like all those who preside over national treasuries, Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, has a deficit that needs closing. Unlike other financial-men-in-charge, he would wisely rather not tax work and risk-taking, and so in his latest budget he cut the highest marginal tax rate from 50 percent to 45 percent.

To fill part of the revenue hole, he decided to extend the VAT, or Value Added Tax, essentially a national sales tax beloved of Europe’s politicians, to a favorite of Britain’s moderate-income consumers, the hot pasty (pronounced pass-tea). Think knish—some sort of stuffing wrapped in dough. The chancellor reckoned that the tax, at a rate of 20 percent, would produce about $160 million. Unfortunately, the leadership of the coalition government, dominated by the Tory party, includes many with inherited wealth, educated in private schools and not among leading consumers of pasties. Their political vulnerability to a Labour party round of class warfare somehow escaped the proponents of this new levy.

In response to the uproar, a new set of regulations was crafted. In effect, the government changed the definition of “hot.” Pasties in warming units in supermarkets will still be taxed at a 20 percent rate, but hot pasties left out to cool—“to return to ambient temperatures,” as revenue-gatherers put it—will remain exempt from the tax. Note that the pasty need not be at any specified ambient temperature, merely in the process of approaching an unspecified ambient temperature. Sheryll Murray, Conservative MP for South East Cornwall, told the government, “I didn’t want to see an army of thermometer-wielding tax inspectors poking our pasties.”

Consumption Tax

If you think this idea emerged from the brain of some bureaucrat, no K Street-style lobbying needed, think again. Greggs, the U.K.’s largest bakery chain, gathered more than 300,000 signatures on a petition to change the definition of “hot,” and enlisted the National Association of Master Bakers and Cornish Pasty Association in its lobbying effort. Greggs’s CEO, Ken McMeikan, met with Treasury officials to suggest “a very sensible way forward for the government.” The Treasury’s adoption of the “sensible way forward” produced a 9 percent jump in Greggs’s shares.

This is only one example of many that attest to the complexity of consumption taxes and the lobbying efforts such taxes attract. Conservatives might have many good reasons for favoring such taxes—taxing spending, not earnings from work, being the most cited—but simplicity and the creation of a glut of abandoned offices on K Street should not be among them. Because consumption taxes are regressive—they claim a larger portion of the incomes of lower- than of higher-income consumers—all sorts of exemptions get built in to exempt some purchases from tax….READ MORE

Lloyd Marcus at American Thinker (via Diary of a Mad Conservative)

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A prefect opportunity to President Obama to BE a leader and take an outspoken stand on the behavior of these mobs … like so many other opportunities, has been shoved aside. Maybe when he is all rested up, eh?

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