{"id":18732,"date":"2013-05-11T11:27:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T15:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18732"},"modified":"2013-05-11T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T15:28:05","slug":"it-all-depends-on-how-you-name-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18732","title":{"rendered":"It All Depends On How You Name Something"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been some negative comments lately from Democrats worried about how the implementation of ObamaCare<\/a> will impact the 2014 mid-term elections. Historically, a President in his second term loses big in the mid-term elections, so the Democrats don’t want any additional difficulties. Recently a Democrat<\/a> referred to ObamaCare as a ‘train wreck’ about to happen. That certainly does not improve the image of ObamaCare. Also, a lot of 26-year-olds are timing out of their parents’ health insurance and realizing that the IRS<\/a> will be fining them if they do not pay the increased premiums ObamaCare requires from them. Keep in mind that increasing premiums on younger people is supposed to subsidize medical expenses for the elderly and for those with pre-existing health conditions.<\/p>\n

Well, now it’s time for the goodwill tour for ObamaCare. Yesterday the Washington Examiner<\/a> reported that as part of the Mother’s Day offensive for ObamaCare, President Obama<\/a> has described ObamaCare as \u201clargest health care tax cut for working families and small businesses in our history. \u201c Really. If you believe that, please call me about buying some waterfront property in Arizona–or maybe I could interest you in a bridge in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

His argument was a Hail-Mary effort to redesignate subsidies for individuals to purchase health insurance on government-run exchanges as a \u201ctax cut.\u201d But according to the Congressional Budget Office<\/a>, these subsidies actually qualify as more than $1 trillion in \u201cExchange Subsidies<\/a> and Related\u00a0Spending.\u201d (Emphasis mine.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Far from being a historic tax cut, Obamacare actually qualifies as one of the largest tax increases in history. It contains roughly $1 trillion in taxes \u2014 on insurance plans, medical devices and investment income. And many of the taxes will end up falling on the middle class. The law\u2019s individual mandate, which the Obama administration successful argued was a tax before the U.S. Supreme Court<\/a>, is projected to hit nearly 5 million Americans<\/a> with incomes less than $60,000 by 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I understand that right now we have a lot of low-information voters who know more about American<\/a> Idol than about what is going on in Washington. However, as these people begin to notice what is happening to their household budgets, maybe they will wake up and start paying attention. I can relate to the low-information voters–I used to be one. My excuse was not American Idol–my excuse was juggling family, work, etc. Either way, it’s time for America to wake up and begin to vote for people who will actually tell us the truth and practice fiscal restraint. I am sure that we have people in politics who are capable of that–I am just not sure how much power they have right now. We need to pay attention and vote accordingly.<\/p>\n

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