Reply With QuotePresident Obama told George Stephanopoulos it wasn't a tax and that Stephanopoulos was "stretching" when asked about it.
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PolitiFact: Health care law is not the largest tax increase ever
President Obama told George Stephanopoulos it wasn't a tax and that Stephanopoulos was "stretching" when asked about it.
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Obama lied.Originally Posted by Laworkerbee
That being said, conservatives/Republicans are wrong when they say that it is "the largest tax increase in American history".
I dont get this post. Does it have to be the 'biggest' tax increase to qualify as a bad idea? Obamacare is a bad idea from inception, no matter how high the taxes imposed are from historical standpoint.
I just watched that interview...quite painful.
To show that conservatives/Republicans are wrong when they assert that it is the biggest tax increase in American history.
Whether or not Obamacare is a good or bad idea is not the point of the thread.
The analogy with auto insurance is just wrong. A person can always choose not to have a car/drive.
It is easy to manipulate stats this way. The dollar amount makes Obamacare the largest tax in history, so you recast it as percentage of GNP to get the desired result.
So if I just beat your ass, it would be ok because it wasn't the worst ass kicking you ever got?
P!ss off!
Shhhh.........It is easy to manipulate stats this way. The dollar amount makes Obamacare the largest tax in history, so you recast it as percentage of GNP to get the desired result.
From the link...It is easy to manipulate stats this way. The dollar amount makes Obamacare the largest tax in history, so you recast it as percentage of GNP to get the desired result.
On top of that, it doesn't make sense to compare 2019 dollars to 1985 dollars. You have to adjust for inflation, or express the amount as a total of Gross Domestic Product at the time, which is a way to measure the relative impact of a tax provision at the time it was enacted.
Why are you so adamant about making the topic of this thread over Obamacare being bad? I agree with you, it is bad.
But that's not the topic of this thread.
This thread is coming off as trolling that is why. I appologize for the ambush.
Everyone is wrong sometimes, in this case people who think that Obamacare is the biggest tax increase in American history. I don't see how pointing that out can be considered as trolling.
Neither does it make any sense to cast the tax as a percentage of GNP. Instead, simply list all those tax increases in the chart in inflation-adjusted dollars. That would be the most honest comparison, and is the standard method we always see. It makes one wonder why the author of the chart chose that bizarre method instead. Could it have something to do with the desired outcomes I spoke of?
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