{"id":16325,"date":"2012-11-15T05:28:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T10:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16325"},"modified":"2012-11-16T09:32:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T14:32:23","slug":"what-chaos-looks-like-at-its-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16325","title":{"rendered":"What Chaos Looks Like At Its Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s Washington Examiner<\/span><\/a> posted an article about the implementation of Obamacare<\/a> that will begin on January 1, 2013.\u00a0 The article points out that although the law has so far survived a number of court challenges (with more pending), the fact that the law will be implemented will probably not be good news for Democrats<\/a> running for re-election in 2014.<\/p>\n

The article lists some of the major problems with Obamacare:<\/p>\n

Americans will only be allowed to contribute $2,500 to flexible spending accounts<\/a>, which allow participants to pay for medical expenses on a pretax basis. Also, from then on, the accounts can only be used to pay for drugs with a prescription, excluding over-the-counter drugs<\/a>, which still may be legitimate medical expenses and were previously allowed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new year will also ring in a wave of new tax<\/a> increases. One is the Medicare<\/a> tax hike on individuals earning more than $200,000 and married couples earning more than $250,000. Another is the 3.8 percent tax on interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rents. On top of that, there will be a 2.3 percent tax increase on medical devices. These will be on top of any tax hike that comes out of current end-of-the-year negotiations between Republicans<\/a> and Democrats to avoid the “fiscal cliff.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The change in the flexible spending accounts (FSA) represents a tax on all Americans who use them. People who take over-the-counter allergy medication will now have to get a doctor’s prescription for the same medicine (at increased cost) if they want to use their FSA account to pay for it. This is a tax on all Americans–even the middle class that the President has says he will not raise taxes on.<\/p>\n

Obamacare also increases the expenses of employers<\/a> with more than 50 employees. This will result in many companies not hiring in order to remain below the 50-employee level. We don’t need anything right now that discourages employment.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

With a number of Republican governors deciding that letting the Obama administration<\/a> set up their state-based exchanges is the lesser of bad options, the federal government will be facing a number of logistical challenges to getting them up and running.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If it goes badly, this could spell trouble for Democrats up for re-election in 2014. But who’s ever heard of a massive government database and software development program going badly?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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