OK, It's a tax, but...

[Wigmeister General]

They can not fund HHS for Obamacare, too.

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As if Boehner has the balls to do something like that.

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Originally Posted by Incredible Hulctuary

He had enough insight to recognize that even if Congress calls something a unicorn, it's a tax if it walks like a tax and talks a tax and acts like a tax.

Yeah, if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, looks like a duck - its a tax!

[wolferine]

Originally Posted by Incredible Hulctuary

It's for political reasons that the Dems didn't want to call it a tax, as they don't want voters to be infuriated by a tax increase on the middle class.

So the dems lied for political reasons. Because calling it what it was means they would not have had the votes to pass it. So much for transparency.

Call it what it is, and bring it up for another vote and see if there are enough votes to pass it now.