While discussing Obamacare’s individual mandate in Roanoke, Va., today, President Barack Obama said, “If you have health insurance, you’re not getting hit with a tax.” The obvious conclusion is that if you don’t have health insurance, you will get hit with a tax.<\/p>\n
Oh Barack, now you’ve tossed Twitter into a tizzy:<\/p>\n\n\n
Admits it is a tax, not a penalty? RT @mollyesque<\/a>: Obama: "If you have health insurance, you're not getting hit with a tax."<\/p>\n — Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) July 14, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @BuzzFeedAndrew<\/a> Sounded that way, didn't it?<\/p>\n — Molly Ball (@mollyesque) July 14, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n And the Obamabots are upset we’re even talking about such a thing! Leave King Barry alone!<\/p>\n\n\n @BuzzFeedAndrew<\/a> I've never seen such a dumb word game consume our politics and media. Well, except maybe the "czars."<\/p>\n — Zachary Pleat (@zpleat) July 14, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n Meanwhile, conservatives add a little commentary on Obama’s rhetorical bumbling:<\/p>\n\n\n and if you don't…you are RT @mollyesque<\/a>: Obama: "If you have health insurance, you're not getting hit with a tax."<\/p>\n — Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) July 14, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n It must be tough for Obama to keep track of all the taxes he wishes he could impose on America — he said as far back as 2009<\/a> that Obamacare was “absolutely not a tax increase.” Even the leftist dimwits at ThinkProgress can’t get it straight. <\/a> And somewhere orbiting another universe, Donna Brazile has tried and failed to relabel it a “wellness penalty.<\/a>” Good luck with that.<\/p>\n (Video courtesy of Buzzfeed<\/a>.)<\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/07\/13\/obama-implies-that-obamacare-individual-mandate-is-a-tax\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/mollyesque\/status\/223935788252020736 While discussing Obamacare’s individual mandate in Roanoke, Va., today, President Barack Obama said, “If you have health insurance, you’re not getting hit with a tax.” The obvious conclusion is that if you don’t have health insurance, you will get hit with a tax. Oh Barack, now you’ve tossed Twitter into a tizzy: Admits it … Continue reading Obama implies that Obamacare individual mandate is a tax<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/14371047454402-obama.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}