Obamacare - Is it a tax or not? I guess it depends on the audience. So, Representative Scott Garrett recently asked President Obama's acting OMB director Jeffery Zients if President's Obama's budget imposes any new taxes on citizens making less than 200k per year. Zients did everything in his power to avoid answering, but eventually said "no". That is, he admitted that the fine for not carrying insurance is not a tax. You can see this part of the hearing in the youtube clip.
Interesting since it is a complete contradiction of the following: Obama Administration Files Brief Defending Health Care Law Individual Mandate With Supreme Court: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/06/obama-health-care-individual-mandate_n_1190262.html After this dissemination of truth, Jeffery probably lost any chance to remove "acting" from his title. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u5KuTNQIDQ8 J - If you make less than a quarter of a million dollars a year, you will not see a single dime of your taxes go up. If you make $200,000 a year or less, your taxes will go down. - Barack Obama Ive pledged that I will not sign health insurance reform as badly as I think its necessary, I wont sign it if that reform adds even one dime to our deficit. - Barrack Obama 08-11-2009: I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter, because, frankly, we historically have had a employer-based system in this country, with private insurers, and for us to transition to a system like that, I believe would be too disruptive. 06-30-2003: A single-payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. That's what Id like to see. - Barack Obama 03-24-2007: My commitment is to make sure that we've got universal healthcare for all Americans by the end of my first term as president. I would hope that we could set up a system that allows those who can't go through their employer to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort. But I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There's going to be potentially some transition process. I can envision a decade out, or 15 years out, or 20 years out. - Barack ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:346982 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
