This is starting to get hard to track. I shall endeavor to hilight said lies whenever they should present themselves.
He’s not this only lying politician, just the HMFIC of the lying politicians.
Obama Lies:
AP Fact Check: Obama Wrong on Tax Claim
Who is the misleader on health care? Again, it’s President Obama. The Associated Press has this report, excerpted here:
Memo to President Barack Obama: It’s a tax.
Obama insisted this weekend on national television that requiring people to carry health insurance — and fining them if they don’t — isn’t the same thing as a tax increase. But the language of Democratic bills to revamp the nation’s health care system doesn’t quibble. Both the House bill and the Senate Finance Committee proposal clearly state that the fines would be a tax.
Read the whole story for more.
Taking Over Everything
David Boaz
“My critics say that I’m taking over every sector of the economy,” President Obama sighed to George Stephanopoulos during his Sunday media blitz.
Not every sector. Just
- health care
- energy
- local schools
- banks
- insurance companies
- automobile companies
- compensation at financial firms
- newspapers
- the internet
This president and his Ivy League advisers believe that they know how an economy should develop better than hundreds of millions of market participants spending their own money every day. That is what F. A. Hayek called the “fatal conceit,” the idea that smart people can design a real economy on the basis of their abstract ideas.
You must have health insurance
President Obama’s plan to make health insurance compulsory has come under bipartisan fire for being a new tax on the middle class — a charge the Obama administration denies.
In the latest Cato briefing paper, “All the President’s Mandates: Compulsory Health Insurance Is a Government Takeover,” Director of Health Policy Studies Michael F. Cannon cites Obama advisor Larry Summers’ depiction of health insurance mandates as “public programs financed by benefit taxes,” and notes that the House bill would impose tax rates higher than 50 percent on some middle-income earners. Cannon also explains how the individual mandate could increase costs, force millions of Americans to switch coverage, and ultimately allow government to ration care.
Obama Fibs on Taxes, Abortion Beginning To Show
By Maggie Gallagher
There are lies, damn lies, and then there is politics.
Read President Obama’s lips: No new taxes for the middle class. Well, OK, maybe there will be revenue enhancers, levies, tax penalties and fines, as well as mandatory purchase of insurance policies that consume more than 10 percent of your income. But, hey, no new taxes.
Truth, Lies and In Between 