Can you say “LIAR”?
by Mike on Jul.19, 2010, under Political
During the health care debate, President Obama stridently stated that the individual mandate is not a tax. As originally reported by the WSJ and as reported by the NYT:
“For us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase,” the president said last September, in a spirited exchange with George Stephanopoulos on the ABC News program “This Week.”
When Mr. Stephanopoulos said the penalty appeared to fit the dictionary definition of a tax, Mr. Obama replied, “I absolutely reject that notion.”
Now that the constitutionality of this penalty is being challenged, the Obama Justice Dept. is now claiming that the penalty is a tax.
Do you think that President Obama and his team had not thought this through at the time he made the statement above. Either do I. He has know this is a tax all along.
My guess is that there a good number of folks who make less than $250K who’s going to have to pay this tax. Looks like a couple of lies to me.
