Conservatives now hate their own proposal
By David Hanson
Columnist John Long says he is very concerned about Obamacare (“Taxing power without limits,” July 5). Hysterically, he raises the specter of totalitarian socialism as the logical consequence of the Supreme Court decision upholding the law.
Maybe if Long understood the Affordable Care Act better he would not fear it, and he would not have contributed to the misinformation campaign being waged by the GOP. Long says, “The most important [issue] is the ‘individual mandate’ that all Americans buy health insurance or pay a penalty.” On the contrary, a small percentage of taxpayers will be required to do either. This line is being used by the GOP to stir up votes in November. “The largest tax increase on the middle class in history,” is a commonly told lie. Most people won’t pay a dime of higher taxes as a result of this law, and there are various tax credits (cuts) in the law that Long and the GOP won’t acknowledge.
Hanson lives in Roanoke and is a professor of history at Virginia Western Community College.
July 12, 2012 - 12:05 AM
Well said David Hanson!
I have never understood the hypocrisy. The mandate is straight out of the Heritage Foundation playbook when they were fighting that hero nee socialist Hillary Clinton and now it is totally about a “government takeover”.
We should really now understand the power of propaganda and the serious problem with denial being so much more than a river.
‘“The largest tax increase on the middle class in history,” is a commonly told lie. Most people won’t pay a dime of higher taxes as a result of this law…”‘
http://pacifictax1040.com/library/obamacare-timeline.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/036341_Obamacare_new_taxes_mandate.html#ixzz1zZgaNbwf
You’re right Mr. Hanson, somebody’s lying.
#1 Rah, rah, sis boom….2, 4, 6, 8…who do we appreciate?!
Sound bite, groupy cheer, de jour.
2. Jim Lucas – have you analyzed what these web sites are saying and why? For instance, one of hte big tax increases has to do with the 40% tax on employee health care plans that offer too many benefits. These plans are plans provided tax free for some union members and some top executives. The idea is simply that if employers want to provide these plans that provide super benefits at high costs, they should not be tax subsidized. Therefore, such benefits will not be taxed to stop the abuse of the tax system. I would assume since this applies to some union plans, you would be for the tax.
Most of all the taxes discussed in these web sites result in no or little taxes. The only on one that bears any credence is the increase in tax on investments for those making more than 200,000 a year. This minimal increase on dividends and capital gains when these rates are already below the rates employees pay is paltry.
Jim, you are barking up the wrong tree on the tax aspects of ACA. The increases simply are not there.