#IWANTREPEAL: Confirmed: Dems’ Healthcare Takeover is a ‘Big F***ing’ Tax
June 29, 2012
FYI, a similar version of this release below went out to the following districts: Shelley Adler (NJ-03), Pete Aguilar (CA-31), Jeff Anderson (MN-08), George Badey (PA-07), Ron Barber (AZ-08), John Barrow (GA-12), Ami Bera (CA-07), Tim Bishop (NY-01), Kathy Boockvar (PA-08), Leonard Boswell (IA-03), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Cheri Bustos (IL-17), Lois Capps (CA-24), Ben Chandler (KY-06), Andrei Cherny (AZ-09), David Cicilline (RI-01), Tarryl Clark (MN-08), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Jim Costa (CA-16), Mark Critz (PA-12), David Crooks (IN-08), Rick Daugherty (PA-15), John Delaney (MD-06), Val Demings (FL-10), Bill Foster (IL-11), Lois Frankel (FL-22), Pete Gallego (TX-23), John Garamendi (CA-03), David Gill (IL-13), Alan Grayson (FL-09), Raul Grijalva (AZ-07), Pam Gulleson (ND-AL), Clark Hall (AR-01), Brad Harriman (IL-12), Jose Hernandez (CA-10), Brian Higgins (NY-26), Jim Himes (CT-04), Ruben Hinojosa (TX-15), Paul Hirschbiel (VA-02), Kathy Hochul (NY-27), Rush Holt (NJ-12), Steven Horsford (NV-04), Q. Byrum Hurst (AR-04), Steve Israel (NY-03), Bill Keating (MA-09), Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-01), Larry Kissell (NC-08), Pat Kreitlow (WI-07), Ann McLane Kuster (NH-02), Rick Larsen (WA-02), David Loebsack (IA-02), Alan Lowenthal (CA-47), Nita Lowey (NY-17), Dan Maffei (NY-24), Larry Maggi (PA-18), Jim Matheson (UT-04), Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04), Jerry McNerney (CA-09), Michael Michaud (ME-02), Joe Miklosi (CO-06), Brendan Mullen (IN-02), Patrick Murphy (FL-18), Mark Murphy (NY-11), John Oceguera (NV-03), Bill Owens (NY-21), Sal Pace (CO-03), Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Scott Peters (CA-52), Collin Peterson (MN-07), Chellie Pingree (ME-01), Nick Rahall (WV-03), Ciro Rodriguez (TX-23), Raul Ruiz (CA-36), Lori Saldaña (CA-52), David Schapira (AZ-09), Brandon Shaffer (CO-04), Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09), Louise Slaughter (NY-25), Gene Stilp (PA-11), Betty Sutton (OH-16), Mark Takano (CA-41), John Tierney (MA-06), Paul Tonko (NY-20), Manan Trivedi (PA-06), Niki Tsongas (MA-03), Christie Vilsack (IA-04), Jamie Wall (WI-08), Tim Walz (MN-01), Charlie Wilson (OH-06), John Yarmuth (KY-03)
Confirmed: Sutton’s Healthcare Takeover is a ‘Big F***ing’ Tax
Supreme Court Decision Verifies What Ohio Families Always Feared, the Worst Tax of ObamaCare is Yet to Come
WASHINGTON — Betty Sutton’s massive government takeover of healthcare is still the law of the land and continues to burden our fragile economy. The individual mandate – that the majority of Americans wanted gone – will add heavy taxes to middle class families. Will Betty Sutton continue to support another weight on her constituents?
“The spotlight is on Betty Sutton now that the Supreme Court confirmed what Ohio workers already knew, that her healthcare takeover would increase taxes on Ohio families,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “The only way to make sure that these taxes don’t do permanent damage on families’ finances and on businesses ability to grow is to make sure Sutton won’t come back in 2013.”
The Supreme Court’s decision ruled ObamaCare’s individual mandate to be a tax on the American middle class:
“The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.” (Chief Justice John Roberts, 567 U.S. ____(2012),
Supreme Court of the United States, 6/28/2012, p. 44)
However, President Obama was adamant that the mandate would not raise taxes on American families who are already dealing with degraded quality of care and less choices through ObamaCare:
“‘No. That’s not true, George. The — for us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase…,’ [said President Obama].” (“Obama: Mandate Is Not A Tax,”
ABC News, 9/20/09)
When the Democrats’ big government healthcare takeover was signed Vice President Biden had a candid moment:
“Vice President Joe Biden …dropped an F-bomb on live television when he turned to Obama and said, ‘This is a big f***ing deal.'” (” ‘A Big F—ing Deal’: Biden’s Health Care Reform F-Bomb On Live TV,”
Huffington Post, 5/23/2012)
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