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“‘Fearmongers’ Were Right about Obamacare”

Michael Tanner, Cato:

With spending going up, and future savings likely to fall short of promises, we can expect higher deficits and, of course, higher taxes. The most recent estimates suggest that the taxes already in the bill will likely end up costing middle-class workers and small businesses an extra $1,000 per year.

Now the most recent report from the Congressional Budget Office warns that nearly 4 million Americans, nearly three-quarters of them middle-class workers, will be hit with fines for failing to meet the government’s mandateto buy insurance. Those penalties will average nearly $1,000 per person in 2016.

All this, and the health care “reform” law is merely a month old.

Perhaps this is why nearly 56 percent of American voters now favor repealing the bill.

This episode provides a lesson, not just for health care reform, but more generally for the Obama administration’s policies. When critics of the health care bill raised these concerns during the debate, they were accused of “fear-mongering.” It was said that they were “opposed to reform,” or were in the pockets of the insurance industry.

Now, as the administration presses forward with its other initiatives, including financial regulation and, possibly, “cap-and-trade” energy taxes, the same modus operandi is in action. Those who raise questions are derided as opposing “reform” and siding with the banks, energy companies or whoever the enemy of the day is. The bills need to be rushed through. There is no time for real debate.

But maybe, just maybe, the first month of Obamacare should serve as a lesson: Legislate in haste; repent in leisure.

Yeah, whatever. Keep smoking that hate pipe, cracker, until you come to grips with having a black President. Who won. Deal.

Racist.

12 Replies to ““‘Fearmongers’ Were Right about Obamacare””

  1. JuanPablo says:

    Well, when i criticize him i’m referring to his white half, so that’s ok.

    The R-Team should make the repeal battle about the universal principle of Individual before State. And this argument should be making the rounds in ads before the candidates. Lay the groundwork, dig the trenches, advance!

  2. JD says:

    As bh linked to on another thread, the Dems appear to be willing to charge forward with all sorts of legislation that the American public is decidedly against, and maybe even moreso during a lame-duck session. That will hamstring the next Congress, putting them in the position of having to try to repeal or amend, possibly with split control of the 2 Houses, and Barcky wielding the veto.

  3. geoffb says:

    The bh link.

    Democrats at Ramming Speed
    The White House wants to pass as much legislation as possible before losing its big majorities, no matter how unpopular its proposals are.

  4. geoffb says:

    That will hamstring the next Congress, putting them in the position of having to try to repeal or amend, possibly with split control of the 2 Houses, and Barcky wielding the veto.

    If that is his strategy then the Republicans should simply pass repeal after repeal and make him veto them all and make the Democrats vote to oppose the repeals and the override votes. Highlight the differences and show just who is for what. Use that for the 2012 elections.

  5. Spiny Norman says:

    It’s the Kamakazi Kongress, geoffb.

    They really are insane.

  6. JD says:

    I guess undoing crap is better than Congress, under anyone’s control, trying to fix things.

  7. sdferr says:

    This still boils to what defector’s can gain, doesn’t it? What has Barry got that Lindsey wants, in other words.

  8. geoffb says:

    “What has Barry got that Lindsey wants, in other words.”

    And can get and use without losing even more for doing the giving for the taking.

  9. Jeff G. says:

    You don’t understand, haters. They won. That means they can do whatever they want whenever they want however they can manage to do it.

    It only becomes a problem when Republicans try using the same “rules” that the good people do. At which point it is important to point out that some pigs are more equal than others.

  10. Danger says:

    Another guy that needs to “come to grips with having a black President. Who won.”

    FTA:

    “So what is the point of these musings? Like the Jews of Goray, those people who voted for Obama are going to have their world turn over 180 degrees. I fear for their faith in Obama. He is not an honest broker. He misleads and uses the ancient Roman trick of “bread and circuses.” Interesting is the fact that this allegedly transparent leader has not held a press conference in months. Obama’s angry and contemptible behavior against allies is revealing. His mercurial nature has Americans spinning; it takes incredible energy to keep up with his poisonous prevarications.

    How will these Obama supporters lose their moorings? Daily, more factual information emerges that shows what a fraud Obama is. What will they ever be able to believe in again? Jeremy Dauber has written that Isaac Bashevis Singer saw how weak men of goodwill are easily pushed aside by brutes if they refuse to fight back. So to my friend of many years, to those Jews who thought Obama would be the messiah, I issue a call to seek the truth and not be blinded by a charismatic figure whose change is only about power and glory and not about your well being. Remember Goray!”

  11. Merovign says:

    Am I the only person who, when they hear idiot questions like “why do people oppose health care reform,” wish to punch the questioner right in the accursed pie-hole?

    Or is that hatey?

    I mean, obviously the correct answer is “mu,” which translates very roughly as “your loaded question cannot be answered as stated because you’re a dissembling prick.”

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