{"id":6179,"date":"2010-07-19T12:08:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6179"},"modified":"2010-07-19T12:10:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T16:10:38","slug":"obamacare-tax-so-did-obama-lie-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6179\/obamacare-tax-so-did-obama-lie-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare Tax: So Did Obama Lie… Twice?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even proponents of ObamaCare are now admitting<\/a> that Obama “has not been honest with the American people about the nature of this bill.”\u00a0 Those are the words of Yale University professor Jack Balkin, who actually supports<\/em> the bill.<\/p>\n

Throughout his candidacy and now into his presidency, Barack Obama solemnly promised<\/a> American voters that he wouldn’t raise taxes on anyone earning under $250,000 per year.\u00a0 Not just income taxes – he said “any form” of taxes.\u00a0 When he, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid subsequently dumped their ObamaCare monstrosity upon the resistant nation, however, the bill contained an individual mandate under which Americans who failed to purchase insurance for whatever reason would be assessed a punitive tax.\u00a0 When career liberal George Stephanopoulos pointed out\u00a0 to Obama during an ABC News interview<\/a> that this mandate constitutes a tax, even reading a straightforward definition of “tax” from a dictionary, Obama petulantly objected.<\/p>\n

That pesky interview from September now safely behind him, however, get a load of the Obama Administration’s new position on the matter.\u00a0 In its legal brief defending ObamaCare against the lawsuit<\/a> to overturn it brought by fifteen different states, Obama contends<\/a> that the Constitution empowers the federal government “power to lay and collect taxes.”<\/p>\n

Thus, it appears that Obama intentionally offered two falsehoods to the American people:\u00a0 (1) that he would not increase “any form” of taxes upon anyone earning less than $250,000, and (2) that he didn’t consider ObamaCare’s individual mandate a “tax.”\u00a0 How much deeper can this man bury his campaign false promise of “hope” and “change?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even proponents of ObamaCare are now admitting that Obama “has not been honest with the American people about the nature of this bill.”\u00a0 Those are the words of Yale University professor Jack Balkin, who actually supports the bill. Throughout his candidacy and now into his presidency, Barack Obama solemnly promised American voters that he wouldn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,465,311,24,35,105,28],"class_list":["post-6179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-reform","tag-individual-mandate","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-tax","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6185,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179\/revisions\/6185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}