Sunday, November 16, 2014

Who does Obama think he's kidding? He paid Gruber $400,000 in taxpayer money to craft the law!



◼ Obama Calls the Architect of Obamacare ‘Some Advisor Who Never Worked on Our Staff’ - Washington Free Beacon













◼ GRUBERMANIA CONTINUES: IT’S AWESOME HOW TED KENNEDY RIPPED YOU OFF, ISN’T IT? Seriously, how arrogant do you have to be to think this is okay to say in a public forum? - John Hayward/Human Events @Doc_o

...What he’s describing is the oldest trick in the Left’s book: forcing companies to pay a tax and pass it on to consumers, effectively hiding the tax from the people who pay it. A great deal of the modern Leviathan State is funded through such trickery. In ObamaCare’s case, it was decided to suck in revenue through an excise tax on expensive high-quality insurance plans – hence the “Cadillac” nickname – rather than directly taxing the insured, or capping the tax deduction given to them for purchasing health insurance. As Gruber noted, it would have been “politically impossible” to get something like that through Congress, so as Big Government has done so many times before, it drafted industry into service as stealth tax collectors.

Incidentally, it’s interesting that all of the subterfuges Gruber is crowing about pulling off today were deemed vital to the passage of ObamaCare in a year when the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. That’s how bad ObamaCare is. No Republicans voted for it, Republican constituents were always against it, and the Tea Party movement evolved in part from spontaneous town-hall protests against ObamaCare. What Gruber is congratulating Democrats for doing is making patsies of their own constituents, and willing media. If you’re a Democrat voter, you are the one Gruber called “stupid” in those first clips. You’re the one who had to be hoodwinked, to keep your elected representatives on board with this scheme....

◼ Despite Dem claims, trash-talking Gruber was well-paid adviser for ObamaCare and more - FOX

◼ Obama Addresses Gruber’s Comments. SPOILER: Obama Admits Nothing, Denies Everything.

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