Zoom-boing
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Are you really this obtuse?
But the language of the health care reform plan proposed by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., explicitly labels the penalty attached to the mandate as an "excise tax."
Penalties for failing to obtain coverage would range from $750 to $3,800 under the plan. This is addressed in a section labeled: "Excise Tax."
"The excise tax would apply for any period for which the individual is not covered by a health insurance plan with the minimum required benefit," the Baucus plan says.
Tell me again that it isn't a tax. Is the sand very grainy?
That's because you're quoting a Senate version of the bill that hasn't been approved by anyone yet, and was in fact drafted after Obama made his speech...
The "Baucus Bill" is not going to be used. You can count on it.
Are you going to pick and choose among all the ideas floating around in congress and attribute them to Mr Obama now?
Obama said on his Sunday talk show spiel to George S. that there was no tax. The Baucus bill came out last week, it's one of the bills in the mix. The fact that Obama blatantly lied and said it wasn't a tax when, in fact, it is even labled as an excise tax in the bill, shows how fucking arrogant Obama is and how he manipulates words to suit his message.
Nothing has been approved yet but that does not negate the FACT that in the Baucus bill there is a tax on people who do not purchase health insurance that the government mandates. If mandated health care goes through, so will this tax. btw, I believe the Republicans are responsible for the mandate (somebody correct me if I'm wrong).