Health Insurance requirement: "Not a Tax"?

Remember when Obamacare passed, and they (mostly dems) said that although the law required you to have insurance, and although you'd be penalized monetarily for not having it - it was not a tax.  Over and over, the penalty was defended as a anything other than a tax.

Well, now they're finally starting to own up to the truth:


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/health/policy/18health.html?_r=1&ref=politics

Health care reform means more power for the IRS | Washington Examiner

Health care reform means more power for the IRS | Washington Examiner

State of The Union Address

I’m watching President Obama’s first State of The Union Address. I really can’t believe it. He’s presented a bunch of ideas with no legislation to support them:

• $10,000 tax credit for four years of college tuition.
• Double exports in 5 years
• Several more I can’t remember

On a side note, watching “Stretch” Pelosi grinning like the Crypt Keeper behind him makes me want to vomit.

Wonder if Pelosi will acknowledge this?

You know how the liberals in Congress have been dismissing the protests at recent Healthcare "Town Hall" meetings, calling them "astroturf"? She (and others) figured that by de-legitimizing them as "professionally organized" she'd be able to get people to ignore them.

The reality is that ACORN and other organizations that have the President in their pocket are doing this themselves. Watch this: