It's Not a Tax, It's a Choice - When I write a check to the IRS rather than take up residence in federal housing, it's strictly voluntary

It's Not a Tax, It's a Choice - When I write a check to the IRS rather
than take up residence in federal housing, it's strictly voluntary.

Henry Percy
americanthinkercom

The White House insists, pace SCOTUS, that the individual mandate in
ObamaCare is not a tax.


White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters traveling with Obama
on Friday that the mandate enforces a penalty, not a tax, because
people have a choice whether to obtain health insurance.

"You can call it what you will, but if [sic] affects 1 percent" of the
population, Carney said, according to a White House pool report.

Apparently all the president's men have coordinated their stories, for
here's one Jonathan Gruber, who made things even clearer:


Jonathan Gruber, a healthcare economist who helped design Obama's
healthcare overhaul, made the same point as Carney on a conference
call with reporters Friday.

"It's not a tax on the middle class," Gruber said. "It's a choice
they're making."

So when I write a check to the IRS rather than take up residence in
federal housing, it's strictly voluntary. I'm just making a choice. I
hope the people who create Romney's ads saturate the airwaves with
these precious sound bites in the coming months.

And who is Jonathan Gruber? Professor of Economics at MIT. A "numbers
wizard." Apparently he skipped the classes in logic. See him here with
his pet cockatoo.

Henry Percy is the nom de guerre for a technical writer living in
Arizona. He may be reached at saler.50d[at]gmail.com.


Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/07/its_not_a_tax_its_a_choice.html#ixzz1zO26heEo

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