{"id":22431,"date":"2015-02-17T12:53:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22431"},"modified":"2015-02-17T12:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:53:55","slug":"congressional-democrats-want-to-delay-obamacare-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22431\/congressional-democrats-want-to-delay-obamacare-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Democrats Want to Delay ObamaCare Penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like having the courage of one\u2019s convictions about the imperative of ObamaCare doesn\u2019t include making good on the Democrats\u2019 promise to \u201cpay-as-you-go.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Once upon a time when Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was Speaker of the House, Democrats in Congress made a lot of noise about PAYGO, the fiscal policy that essentially requires new spending to be paid for with spending cuts, tax increases, or some combination of the two.<\/p>\n

But now that ObamaCare\u2019s IRS-imposed penalties are coming due, those same Democrats are singing a different tune.<\/p>\n

\u201cThree senior House members told the Associated Press that they plan to strongly urge the administration to grant a special sign-up opportunity for uninsured taxpayers who will be facing fines under the law for the first time this year,\u201d the AP reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the three House members \u2013 Michigan\u2019s Sander Levin, Washington\u2019s Jim McDermott and Texas\u2019 Lloyd Dogget \u2013 \u201c[a]ll worked to help steer Obama\u2019s law through rancorous congressional debates from 2009-2010.\u201d<\/p>\n

And now that the price of non-compliance with ObamaCare\u2019s tax-raising mandates is becoming obvious, all three want to avoid a predictable constituent backlash.<\/p>\n

Sorry fellas, if spending at least $684 million annually<\/a> to educate the public about ObamaCare isn\u2019t enough to adequately inoculate against angry voters, perhaps there\u2019s a fatal flaw in the law.<\/p>\n

At any rate, it\u2019s time the American public got the version of health reform you voted for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks like having the courage of one\u2019s convictions about the imperative of ObamaCare doesn\u2019t include making good on the Democrats\u2019 promise to \u201cpay-as-you-go.\u201d Once upon a time when Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was Speaker of the House, Democrats in Congress made a lot of noise about PAYGO, the fiscal policy that essentially requires new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,4191,3308,1829,735,35,3005,2249],"class_list":["post-22431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-delay","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-irs","tag-obamacare","tag-penalty","tag-subsidy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22431"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22437,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22431\/revisions\/22437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}