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The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is representing
Hobby Lobby as well as a number of other organizations and groups that
have filed lawsuits against the mandate, said in a statement posted on
its website following Sotomayor’s decision that the company would not
provide abortifacient drugs in its health-insurance plan.
And the trend could grow, from healthcare to guns. And then, Houston, we have a problem.
The best thing- as Democrat strategist
James Carville
admitted last year- that could have happened for the Democrats is for
the Supreme Court to have tossed out the landmark legislation that bears
Obama's name.
But that didn't happen, so now the Democrats are stuck trying to make another bad law work.
Obamacare supporters like Ezra Klein, instead of trying to fix the
problem continue to play dirty pool when it comes to healthcare
reform. They now count it as a deficit fighter, when in fact, it’s no
such thing.
Unless of course you count
any bill with a tax increase in it as a deficit fighter. A defense contract could be a deficit fighter too, if a defense contract was designed just like Obamacare.
Here let me show you the sleight of hand that liberals did to claim Obamacare fights the deficit.
Say, for example, that when we decommission the old Nimitz-class
carriers we then replace them with the newer Gerald Ford class of
carriers at $15 billion a clip. Let’s say, in this example, that we then
raise taxes 3.8 percent on people who go over a certain income limit,
to an extent that we not only pay for each carrier but we also create a
surplus of $100 billion that we can apply to the deficit- just as they
did in Obamcare. Actually in the case of the aircraft carriers, the
exact same tax increase that the used for Obamacare would pay for the
carriers and leave a surplus of $180 billion over the same period,
almost twice what Obamacare claims.
Then we could pass both the replacement aircraft carrier budget
authorization and the tax increase in one bundle- just as they did with
Obamacare- and call it the
The American Affordable Defense Act (AADA).
Then any time someone threatens to scrap the Ford class carriers we
could cry out “But getting rid of the AADA would add to the deficit!”
While the typical American doesn’t necessarily know the ins and outs
of Obamacare, the same confidence game has been played on them so may
times that they are wise to it.
Counting on public stupidity to see a massive new spending program, like Obamacare, as some sort of deficit fighter, because
THEY SAY IT IS, just shows you how weak the original case for Obamacare was in the first place.
And only in Washington can you start off entitlement reform that’s
supposed to reduce spending, by ushering in a massive new government
program that will greatly grow government spending. And then pat
yourself on the back for it.
Wasn’t it the same type of entitlement Ponzi scheme that gave us the problem in the first place?
Wonks and politicians may not see it, but those guys are in the
process of self term-limiting out of business anyway- either by votes or
by pageviews. 2010 was just a preview, not a conclusion even accepting
the standstill in the 2012 election.
Readers know that I hate to pick on the
Washington Post this way, but I don’t know anyone who would willingly call themselves a wonk in the first place. The Post’s
Wonk brand is stuck in the Way-Back Machine of the 1990s.
The Wonk Disneyland, known as DC, is exactly what gets us these kinds
of political and mathematical ruses that pass for solutions these day.
The only choice we will have soon is to stop complying with federal
mandates like Obamacare.
Because Americans continue to favor repeal of Obamacare.
The Supreme Court decision calling Obamacare a tax will likely
reinforce the opinion that it’s a flawed piece of legislation that
greatly expands government bureaucracy at a time when Americans think
that government is doing too much not too little.
You can pass Obamacare as a deficit measure and call
it Constitutional -and then wonk about it all you want. But Americans
know the truth.
Obamacare, like the tax on tea that saw a load of it dumped into Boston Harbor in 1773, is just plain dumb. And both also go
against natural law.
I won't comply.