16 Obamacare-Voting Democrat Senators Oppose Its “Job-Killing” Tax Hikes
December 11, 2012 11:50 pm
They
were for the Obamatax before they were against it. That’s the tune 16
Democrat politicians who voted Obamacare for are singing as their states
face what they call a “job-killing” 2.3 percent tax increase on medical
device manufacturers. The news comes as yet another Obamacare cost has
been uncovered: a $63 per-head fee
to cover those with pre-existing conditions that will be making its way
in 2014 onto insurance plans that cover some 190 million Americans.Obamacare is currently three times original cost estimates, and it is unclear where all the revenue needed to pay for the costly new program will come from. Perhaps when John Roberts unveiled his philosopher’s stone and turned the single mandate penalty into a tax, this should have been a clue that higher taxes were coming.
Beltway Confidential covers the story on the medical device tax:
Sixteen Democratic senators who voted for the Affordable Care Act are asking that one of its fundraising mechanisms, a 2.3 percent tax on medical devices scheduled to take effect January 1, be delayed. Echoing arguments made by Republicans against Obamacare, the Democratic senators say the levy will cost jobs — in a statement Monday, Sen. Al Franken called it a “job-killing tax” — and also impair American competitiveness in the medical device field.So we have it on the record, once and for all: Democrats admit that raising taxes on the private sector can lead to lost jobs. This is a breakthrough of such gargantuan proportions that maybe we can start slashing the deficit by saving on mental health expenditures! After all, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal just penned an op-ed arguing that Congress was “psychologically incapable of getting our fiscal house in order.”
Some Democrat Senators admitting that Congress has a taxing problem is a good start; but let’s hope they don’t wait too long to discover that Washington has a spending addiction as well.
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