by Jane Richey | Jul 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
According to press reports, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One that the penalty was not a tax but a penalty. “It’s a penalty, because you have a choice. You don’t have a choice to pay your taxes, right,” Carney is quoted...
by Jane Richey | Jul 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the court’s four liberals to uphold the constitutionality of Obamacare: “No one would doubt that this law imposed a tax, and was within Congress’s power to tax,” he wrote. “That conclusion should not change simply because...
by Jane Richey | Jul 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Obamacare’s individual mandate is not a tax, “it’s a penalty,” White House chief of staff Jack Lew told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” “What the Supreme Court said was, this was constitutional. They said it didn’t...
by Jane Richey | Jun 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
This is an excellent video on the health care exchanges and how they work. (Scroll about halfway down the page.) The Governor has signed PA onto the exchanges before Obamacare was ruled on by the Supreme Court. In light of this, what will the Governor do now? He...
by Jane Richey | Jun 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
As the hours passed, three reactions proved predominant, and conservatives began to coalesce around them. These three came from GOP Governors, the House leadership, and the very Tea Party that James Carville had pronounced dead earlier this week. The governors, for...
by Jane Richey | Jun 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The first, and best known, of these seven taxes that will hit all Americans as a result of Obamacare is the Individual Mandate Tax (no longer concealed as a penalty). This provision will require a couple to pay the higher of a base tax of $1,360 per year, or 2.5% of...
