Zev Porat

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Flashback! "Mandate's not a tax" said Obama in 2009 - SCOTUS says IT IS!

ABC NEWS 2009:

"President Obama signaled in our interview that he was prepared to address some of the concerns raised by key Senator Jay Rockefeller, who called the Baucus bill a “big middle class tax increase” this week.
That means he’ll support more subsidies for middle class families.
But in our most spirited exchange, the President refused to accept the argument that a mandate to buy health insurance is equivalent to a tax." - ABC NEWS Sept 20 2009
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Today, The supreme court of the United States allowed "Obamacare" based on the individual mandate link to taxation and not commerce. See here: http://www.ppsimmons.blogspot.com/2012/06/breaking-scotus-rules-obamacare-is.html

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