Remember the video of President Obama taking umbrage with ABC's George Stephanopoulos and the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of "tax"?
From the Wall Street Journal --
"The President revealed a great deal about his philosophy of government and how he defines a tax increase. It turns out the President thinks a health-care tax is not a tax if he thinks the tax is for your own good."
Obama Denies that Individual Mandate is a Tax Increase - WSJ.com
Monday, September 21, 2009
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We who have cars are required to have auto insurance. No one considers that requirement to be a tax.
ReplyDeleteWe are not, however, required to buy a car.
ReplyDeleteWe are not, however, required to have health. IF we have health of any kind, "good health", "bad health," we can be required to insure it, just as we are required to insure a car, if we have a car.
ReplyDeleteSo, regardless of health condition we are required to insure ourselves, the only requisite being life?
ReplyDeleteYet purchasing life insurance is not required.
That's why I find the car insurance argument faulty, as it applies only to those who choose to own a car. You cannot choose to be born.
Tax, levy, fine, surcharge, whichever way you want to look at it, it is a means of forcibly seperating you from your earnings.