Government Duplicity
In Just a Thought, July 29th, 2010
Have you heard the latest Administration flip-flop on Obamacare?
From the beginning of the debate on universal healthcare, one of the administration’s key selling points has been that there would be no tax increases on anyone making less than $250,000 annually.
So to pay for this horrendous monstrosity, they mandated that everyone must buy insurance.
One of the key issues in the lawsuit against Obamacare being brought to the Supreme Court by at least 20 states is that the government does not have the authority to mandate individuals buy insurance.
Recognizing that this argument has merit and threatens the bill, now Obama’s team of lawyers is arguing that it really isn’t a mandate to buy insurance—now get this—it is a tax.
It ought to cause even the bill’s staunchest supporter pause when politicians must use one argument to pass a bill in the legislature and quite the opposite argument to defend it in court.
This duplicity could make one doubt the integrity of this administration.
