Get used to hearing about Obama’s “massive” middle-class tax hike from Republicans, as they try to squeeze lemonade from yesterday’s Supreme Court decision. The administration has been on the record repeatedly arguing that the mandate was a penalty, not a tax, and one of Obama’s more memorable campaign promises was that he wouldn’t raise taxes on those making more than $250,000 a year — his red line for the middle class. This was upended by the decision yesterday, and as Forbes points out, there are now seven different ObamaCare tax hikes on under-$250k-a-year earners.
RNC fires the first shot with this tough new ad (h/t Ed Morrissey):
For the chaser, check out the National Republican Congressional Committee’s fitting adaptation of Joe Biden’s infamous “BFD comment.”
This won't matter. This big news is John Roberts has firmed up the creaky foundations of the Leviathan. Before, Wickard v. Filburn was suspect even to Liberals. Now Leviathan has a new, spurious conceptual basis for its overreach to torture us for another 50 years–the bogus taxing power theory. Those conservatives who say we lost the battle but won the war (including Jonathan Tobin) are sadly mistaken.
Amen to that!! We lost the battle, lost the war, and now we're being marched to the gas chambers. This is a national disaster of colossal proportions. And the notion that Obama gives a rats-a** about being tagged for violating his promise not to raise taxes is insipid.
I want to know why this isn't a (prohibited) "Bill of Attainder." By Roberts' logic, a state could simply impose a prohibitive "tax" on abortions and thus ban abortion that way — a woman would still be free to have the abortion, but she would simply owe a million dollars or so to the state income tax folk. n nIt took a Constitutional Amendment to have just an income tax — I do wonder why the decisions that threw out the first (Civil-War era) income tax aren't applicable here.
fools leading fools over the cliff !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! , what fun !!!!!!!!!!!!!! ech !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is no huge middle class tax increase. Individuals who chose not to carry any health insurance will pay a tax. Very few in the middle class fall into that category. The middle class wants health insurance coverage. The increase in the Medicare tax on wages applies only to those earning over $200,000 a year. That is not the middle class. Maybe to Mitt Romney that is a middle class wage, but to any normal American it is not.
Let me tell you how it will be nThere's one for you, nineteen for me n'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman n nShould five per cent appear too small nBe thankful I don't take it all n'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman n nIf you drive a car, I'll tax the street, nIf you try to sit, I'll tax your seat. nIf you get too cold I'll tax the heat, nIf you take a walk, I'll tax your feet. n nDon't ask me what I want it for nIf you don't want to pay some more n'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman n n n n n