Barrasso blasts health care law as "a new tax"
June 30, 2012 10:33 AM
Delivering this week's Republican address, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., continued to air GOP grievances with President Obama's health care law, which was ruled largely constitutional by the Supreme Court on Thursday. Barrasso, a doctor, took issue with the law itself, but moreover the court's decision to uphold the individual mandate as a tax.
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- Why can not these people move on to something useful, like the economy???
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- "A new tax," Sen. Barrasso? A new tax that will only apply to 4 or 5 million Americans who are making decent money but REFUSE to buy health insurance (instead relying on the rest of us to pay their medical bills if they get hit by a car or poisoned by e. coli)? A new tax that will max out in 2016 at 2.5% of their income (that's something between $700 and $2,500 for most middle class people)? Is this REALLY something you and your GOP colleagues think we should get hysterical about? Frankly, having paid thousands of dollars in excess insurance premiums for many decades to cover "free riders," I think it's about time we had a "free rider" tax!
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