Tuesday, March 11, 2014
It’s Not an Obamacare Tax: It’s an “Individual Shared Responsibility Payment”
Here’s your Orwellian Phrase for the Week: Individual shared responsibility payment. Yeah… Go ahead and try to wrap your brain around that amalgamation of contradictory concepts. The phrase is not gleaned from some glossy DNC spin-office, or a Harvard professor’s latest psychobabble posing as an academic paper. Apparently the phrase is the IRS’s fancy (new) term for the Obamacare Mandate tax that individuals will have to pay if they fail to get health insurance this year.
As reported by Americans for Tax Reform:
If you (or any of your dependents) do not maintain coverage and do not qualify for an exemption, you will need to make an individual shared responsibility payment with your return.
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8 comments:
It's not a tax, but it is a tax. It's not a tax, but it is a tax.
It's not a tax, but it is a tax.
It's not a tax, but it is a tax....
liberals love trying to change things with words. As Abe Lincoln said, if you call a dog's tail a leg, he doesn't have 5 legs, it's still a tail.
Taxes to the largest extent are just legalized theft which gives rise to the expression “Do not steal, the government hates competition.”
MDH
"The NewSpeak is strong with this one."
Megalomania - with its connotations of a mania that, in its vanity, has lost touch with reality itself - is a very good word, is it not?
And compulsive political correctness and newspeak, even when laughably obviously, is a pretty good confirmation of it.
Sorry, the US Supreme Court has ruled. It is a tax. If it is not a tax then the law is unconstitutional since congressional authority to tax is what the court said is the basis of the law.
Funny how some people are "responsible" and others aren't.
George Orwell would be proud.
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