According to President Obama, the individual mandate requiring all Americans to have health insurance is a tax, and his lawyers argued this point in court the other day. Of course this is exactly the opposite of what he said throughout the health care debate. Saying one thing and doing another never bodes well for a president. The feeling of bait and switch comes to mind once again.
Based on the Anti-Injunction Act, the lawyers asked to throw out the Florida lawsuit against ObamaCare. The act restricts courts from interfering with the federal government’s right to collect taxes. How forcing someone to buy health insurance can be considered a tax is something only a politician could come up with. https://higginscompanies.com/health-insurance/individual-health-insurance/
President Obama said of the forced health insurance for individuals and students that the mandate was, “absolutely not a tax increase.” When the reporter read the definition of a tax increase to the President he became angry. We must remember that the president is a lawyer. He knows the law, and he knows what he was doing when he looked the American people in the eye and said it wasn’t a tax. To say the complete opposite now can only lead one to conclude that lying is not beyond our leader.
President Obama is simply trying to fool the court, but he isn’t fooling anyone else. He is in court arguing for a huge middle class tax increase, plain and simple.
Michael Higgins
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An Arizona medical insurance agent.