Barack Obama admits that healthcare mandates are a form of tax

“Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes”  –Barack Obama– September 12th 2008

Those words seem pretty clear to me; Barack Obama repeatedly promised all Americans that a family making under $250,000 would not see a tax increase of ANY kind. Putting aside the fact that this promise was broken when he implemented a cigarette tax that disproportionately affects the poor– Barack Obama is now willing to admit that he broke that promise because forcing healthcare mandates on the American people is a form of taxation.

  Republican critics of the healthcare reform bill tried to label healthcare mandates as a form of taxation on the American people– a criticism that drew stern rebukes from the Obama regime and Democrats in congress.

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”

  The Obama regime is facing lawsuits by 20 states over the healthcare mandates that are included in the healthcare reform legislation, and the regime appears ready to defend the mandates by claiming– get this– Article 1 Section 8 of the constitution because it gives the government the right to lay and collect TAXES.

  The Obama regime is finally willing to admit what his Republican critics have said all along– that healthcare mandates are a form of taxation— and he is willing to admit it in court for the purposes of defending the constitutionality of the mandates. Suddenly he does not “absolutely reject that notion” about healthcare mandates being a form of a tax the way he vehemently denied that very same point to George Stephanopoulos.

  When he was trying to sell this bill to the American people, he was unwilling to state the truth about healthcare mandates, but now that he is forced to defend them in court– and now that there is nothing the American people can do except bend over and take his tax increases– he is willing to admit the truth that he rammed through huge tax increases on many Americans when he forced them to purchase goods and services. 

  We can assume that when Barack Obama went on George Stephanopoulos’s show he knew healthcare mandates were going to be challenged in court, and we can assume that he knew that the Justice Department would defend these mandates using congress’ power to pay and collect taxes. Therefore, he went on television, looked George  Stephanopoulos– and the American people– in the eye, and told a bold faced lie!

  And if Barack Obama and his regime win this lawsuit, we can expect more of this type of taxation in the future because according to the brief, the Obama regime is going to argue that congress has the power to collect taxes “even for purposes that would exceed its powers under other provisions.”

  Where will it end? Think of the possibilities that Barack Obama could envision under the above stated premise.