There is nothing … NOTHING … that isn’t touched by interstate commerce.

Well, except for abortion, obviously. Killing 40 million of the country’s future citizens has no effect on interstate commerce whatsoever and can’t be regulated by Congress in any way.

Only cattle couldn’t comprehend that the mandate is the beginning of the unrestrained power of the State.
This is dictatorship – and the cattle just go “moo.”

OhEssYouCowboys on February 27, 2012 at 12:51 PM

Unfortunately, that’s exactly what the cattle want. They think it’s a good thing. They don’t believe in their own ability to succeed and prosper in life and feel that they need this to survive.

Exit question: If Hitler and Obama were the only candidates running in the next election, who would you vote for?

GarandFan on February 27, 2012 at 12:52 PM

Tough question, actually. Hitler became a decorated war hero, balanced the budget, and then started slaughtering people. My look at the F&F says that Obama is going the other way around.

With corporations–and here I mean C corporations that are subject to income tax themselves–their total income is reduced by tax deductions that represent actual and legitimate expenditures for legitimate business purposes to arrive at a taxable income figure to which the corporate rates are applied. The media decry “deductions, loopholes, and subsidies”; but unless the expenditure doesn’t represent a legitimate business expense, Congress should back off. That said, if there is a deduction–or more usually an income tax credit–that favors a specific industry, it’s corporate welfare that should be terminated.

With individuals, their total income is reduced by itemized deductions that represent life choices (home size, charitable contributions, and where to live)–none of which really represent a business expense (though I’m ignoring Form 2106, which ought to flow through to page one, and fees for investment advice and tax prep)–to arrive at a taxable income figure to which individual rates are applied. In this case, are these survey takers talking about the rate schedule applied after the itemized deductions or are they talking about effective tax rates–they can be dramatically different rates.

In the end, a cursory survey of tax rates is unhelpful.

Because getting into healthcare and buying hospitals these days, especially in low-income areas, is such a proven winner.

They will be closed and vacant. Hospitals are losers under now and they will be even bigger losers under Obamacare.

NoDonkey on February 27, 2012 at 1:23 PM

Who said anything anyone about buying hospitals? We’re talking about government, here. The usual business model, where loss matters, does not apply.

bayam on February 27, 2012 at 1:26 PM

Psst. Tax revenues increase when tax rates go down.

In the last decade, voters opted for lower taxes while supporting massive spending increases. Voters had no problem with the country fighting in 2 major wars and not a single tax increase or offsetting spending cut to pay for it. Voters don’t seem to know what’s realistic anymore.

bayam on February 27, 2012 at 1:26 PM

You’re right.

I guess it’s time to get real, dismiss Congress, and appoint a Preisdent-for-Life so the idiot voters will be shut out of the governing process once and for all. Frankly, the whole Constitution thing was a mistake and should have been replaced with governance by Our Enlightened Betters decades ago. /

PappyD61 on February 27, 2012 at 12:56 PM

There you go. Bringing up inconvenient facts.

The CARD Act of 2009 and the Dodd-Frank bill both protect the consumer from their own reckless spending habits, silly.

Given that the original proposal from Obama and Democrats was to push that rate to nearly 40%, it could be said that only 6% of the voters agreed with that level of taxation. It’s probably more accurate to say that voters think they want the rates increased until they find out what the rates actually are

In the last decade, voters opted for lower taxes while supporting massive spending increases. Voters had no problem with the country fighting in 2 major wars and not a single tax increase or offsetting spending cut to pay for it. Voters don’t seem to know what’s realistic anymore.

USA Today poll -

The health care overhaul that President Obama intended to be the signature achievement of his first term instead has become a significant problem in his bid for a second one, uniting Republicans in opposition and eroding his standing among independents.

In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of the nation’s dozen top battleground states, a clear majority of registered voters call the bill’s passage “a bad thing” and support its repeal if a Republican wins the White House in November. Two years after he signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act— and as the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments about its constitutionality next month — the president has failed to convince most Americans that it was the right thing to do.

Those buildings and equipment within them aren’t going to magically disappear, and neither is most of the staff. Those facilities and those people be under new management and the new management practices another faith entirely.

Because getting into healthcare and buying hospitals these days, especially in low-income areas, is such a proven winner.

They will be closed and vacant. Hospitals are losers under now and they will be even bigger losers under Obamacare.

This election is–or should be–about President Obama’s dismal record and failed policies, the stealth socialist takeover of the federal government, the encroachment of tyranny and the resultant, incremental loss of freedom in our daily lives. If you social conservative types keep muddying the waters with the finer points of Catholic traditions and teaching on contraception, we all lose. Contraception, per se, is not a big deal to most Americans. Find a better battle ground, ideally not one of your opponent’s choosing.

troyriser_gopftw on February 27, 2012 at 1:17 PM

No, this election needs to be about where we are going to go as a country from here. The policies of Obama’s term did not originate in a vacuum. All the problems during his term existed before; they’ve only gotten worse through both Democrat and Republican presidencies.

This is our last chance to get it right, or we will be bankrupt by 2016.

The Hill also polled on the impact of the debate over the HHS mandate, and it’s pretty clear that it has made no real difference

No wonder we’re losing our liberty, one bit at a time.

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The Hill also polled on the impact of the debate over the HHS mandate, and it’s pretty clear that it has made no real difference, despite the hopes and fears of either party.

View the HHS mandate as a bellweather of social issues in toto: no appreciable effect. Besides, the Catholic Church won’t follow through on threats to close down hospitals for ‘another two Lents’, which means two years if you measure time as a Protestant, so the full impact of the HHS mandate controversy won’t be felt until well after the election. And has it occurred to any of you so fired up about this issue that the socialist weasels who crafted ObamaCare want churches out of the healthcare business? Those buildings and equipment within them aren’t going to magically disappear, and neither is most of the staff. Those facilities and those people be under new management and the new management practices another faith entirely.

This election is–or should be–about President Obama’s dismal record and failed policies, the stealth socialist takeover of the federal government, the encroachment of tyranny and the resultant, incremental loss of freedom in our daily lives. If you social conservative types keep muddying the waters with the finer points of Catholic traditions and teaching on contraception, we all lose. Contraception, per se, is not a big deal to most Americans. Find a better battle ground, ideally not one of your opponent’s choosing.

The top 5% income earners earn about 35% of the income in America. What percent share of the income tax burden do you think they pay to the nearest 10%?

I would not be surprised if 50% of the respondents guessed 35% or less.

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