Legalization of something does not necessarily make it a good idea. It was once legal to own a slave. Democrats who voted against abolishing slavery in 1864 have been doing their part ever since to enslave Americans to one social program or another. Obamacare is just the latest example.
For years, Americans have been abundantly blessed with a mostly free-market healthcare system in which competent physicians at state-of-the-art healthcare facilities deliver the latest medical care. Yes, that care comes at a cost, but the alternative, which Obamacare will certainly create, is rationing.
Now that the Supreme Court deemed Obamacare’s individual mandate for what it is — a tax, Democrats are attempting to redefine it as a penalty. It’s just their nature. Why call it a baby when you can reduce it to a fetus? Why bother worrying about illegal aliens when the term “undocumented workers” sounds so much more nebulous? I’ll go halfway; let’s call it a “penalty tax.”
Lies, lies, and more lies.
No tax increases on the middle class: Has anyone noticed Democrats are always talking about strengthening the middle class, and yet almost all of their legislation ends up hurting it? It’s the new “trickle down” theory. Take money from the top and sprinkle it over everyone else with no plan for growth. What you get is an increased lower class and a dwindling middle class. To make matters worse, Obama’s administration keeps redefining down the definition of middle class.
President Obama pledged (his word, not mine) “No family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.” The “Wall Street Journal”‘s senior writer Stephen Moore claims that almost 75 percent of Obamacare expenses will be funded by those making less than $120,000 annually.
Trying to get ahead by doing a little investing? Think again. Section 1411 of the law will levy a 3.8 percent “Medicare tax” on capital gains, dividends, rents, and royalties. The plan also penalizes “Cadillac” insurance plan holders by charging a whopping 40 percent excise tax — unless they are part of the White House’s chosen few who were given permission to opt out. Overall, Obamacare imposes 18 tax increases at a cost of $503 billion, mostly funded by the middle class and the elderly via Medicare cuts.
In other words, there are no freebies that aren’t paid for by the same middle class taxpayers Obama purports to defend. Odds are, many of you reading my column will be recipients of this broken promise.
Medicare will be protected: Well, not actually. Funding cuts of more than $500 billion, in addition to more than 150 new provisions, will affect quality care. Like any business, physicians cannot remain in practice when their profits don’t keep pace with costs to do business. Obamacare will bleed them dry. It may not happen overnight, but rest assured, it will happen, and when it does, the government will be right there to fill the gap with government-run facilities. Ask veterans and their families how that’s working out for them.
Medicare’s Patient-Doctor relationship will be preserved: Much like the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS), Obamacare is more about cost control than quality care. The NHS determines medical needs based upon a calculation created by economists and uses it to determine who does or does not receive treatment. We’re not there yet, but Obamacare pushes us in that direction. Baby steps. And former Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) had the audacity to suggest the Republican vision for healthcare boils down to letting people die. Physician heal thyself!
Obamacare will not add to the deficit: Democrats’ pants should be on fire for this promise. Research done by experts at the Heritage Foundation reveals Obamacare is “a trillion-dollar budget buster” and claims Democrats rigged their numbers using “budget gimmicks, sleights of hand, accounting tricks, and completely implausible assumptions.”
One of the greatest things about America is that we have the opportunity to right our wrongs by way of the ballot box. What the Supreme Court declared as constitutional, voters can declare as history come November.
Susan Stamper Brown is an opinion page columnist, motivational speaker and military advocate who writes about politics, the military, the economy and culture. Email Susan at writestamper@gmail.com or her website at susanstamperbrown.com.
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ObamaCare? What ObamaCare?
ObamaCare never passed. No President of the United States ever signed
it into law.
Obama voluntarily relinquished his American citizenship for Indonesian
naturalization.
See Philip J. Berg’s “Obama Crimes” site on Indonesian citizenship.
See also the Department of State, which advises that foreign
naturalization, like conviction for treason, is expatriating if done
voluntarily and with intent to relinquish American citizenship.
Quoting from the U.S. Department of State:
POTENTIALLY EXPATRIATING ACTS
Section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1481), as
amended, states that U.S. citizens are subject to loss of citizenship
if they perform certain specified acts voluntarily and with the
intention to relinquish U.S. citizenship. Briefly stated, these acts
include:
1. obtaining naturalization in a foreign state (Sec. 349
(a) (1) INA);
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7. conviction for an act of treason (Sec. 349 (a) (7) INA).
ADMINISTRATIVE STANDARD OF EVIDENCE
As already noted, the actions listed above can cause loss of U.S.
citizenship only if performed voluntarily and with the intention of
relinquishing U.S. citizenship. The Department has a uniform
administrative standard of evidence based on the premise that U.S.
citizens intend to retain United States citizenship when they obtain
naturalization in a foreign state, subscribe to a declaration of
allegiance to a foreign state, serve in the armed forces of a foreign
state not engaged in hostilities with the United States, or accept
non-policy level employment with a foreign government.
Conclusion of quote from State Department.
See: http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_778.htmlThe
Department indulges itself in further administrative presumptions
against loss of citizenship, but these are not binding on anybody.
Obama’s non-registration with Selective Service in 1979, and obtaining
a student visa on his Indonesian passport in Indonesia in 1981, are
wholly inconsistent with his retention of American citizenship in the
face of Indonesian naturalization.
PROMISES — LIES — GUN CONTROL — GOVERNMENT TAKE OVER — BY — THE BIG PUNK JAKASS COMMUNIST MARXIST DICTATOR OBAMA THE ILLEGAL IDIOT
The father of lies trains his children well…..
DebraJMSmith: I wish what you said was true, but the damage Pres. Obama has done combined with what has been done for the last 40 years has destroyed more than most realize.
Jan. 22, 1973 was the 39th year of the passing of Roe vs Wade, but it was also the beginning of the 40th year of the slaughter of approximately 4000 babies per day. This innocent blood has desecrated this land and God’s WORD demands there must be a cleansing of this land.
Abortion is bad enough but there is also the gay rights agenda and a even greater abomination than these two is the denial of Christ Jesus. This people, for the government is of the people, allowing the removal of the name of God and the 10 Commandments from our lives, schools and buildings…. America is getting what we deserve today;.
The number 40 is a testing period in the Bible and America has failed to return to God’s ways. In the Book of Chronicles God used heathen nations and unrighteous leaders in Israel in hope of drawing the hearts of the Israelites back to Himself, so too is He doing the same with America today. Just as the vast majority of Israelites refused to turn back to God’s ways, so too is it with the vast majority of Americans today.
History will repeat itself and this is clear to those who seek the truth. God’s has made His judgment clear but the vast majority refuse to listen. To read America’s future or lack thereof, google: “The Message for America, Hand of Help Ministries.” For a event that is nearly upon America today, google: “The Eagle and the Serpents, Hand of Help Ministries.” If interested in how I learned of this, google: “Watchman On The Wall, America ~ Mystery Babylon?”