Canseco (R challenger TX D23): Is or is not Obamacare a tax?
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010A note from Quico Canseco this morning asks a simple but penetrating question:
“If Obamacare will not raise our taxes, why is the Administration defending the case against Obamacare by twelve states by …… claiming it is a tax???
Excerpt follows:
Throughout the debate over ObamaCare, the Obama administration and members of Congress like Ciro Rodriguez claimed that when the GOVERNMENT MANDATED individual health care coverage for you and your family, that it would not be “a tax”. Now the Administration is being sued for overstepping their Constitutional boundaries by forcing you and your family to use your money to make a purchase.
And exactly what is the government using as an argument for why they can impose this “Individual Mandate” for health care? You guessed it, the Department of Justice is arguing that the “power to tax” is within the Constitutional role for the government to do:
“In court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement [individual mandate] as an exercise of the government’s ‘power to lay and collect taxes’,” said Robert Pear of the New York Times on July 16th, 2010…..
This is unacceptable.
The Democratic incumbent, Ciro Rodriguez, claims that Obamacare is a good thing because “the CBO says that over the next 8 years, health care will cost us 4.1 trillion dollars”. Ciro was called out and corrected by people in the audience that knew the facts from memory, he threw a little temper tantrum.
And that’s unacceptable, too.
