From: hrubin@skew.stat.purdue.edu   
      
   On 2012-06-29, Neal Boortz  wrote:   
      
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   > Democrats will do everything in their power to shy away from this   
   > ObamaTax label, but it will be hard considering yesterday’s ruling. The   
   > fact is that ObamaCare is expected to cost this nation $1.76 billion over   
   > the next decade. According to the House Ways and Means Committee, “The   
   > high court’s ruling leaves in place 21 tax increases in the health-care   
   > law costing more than $675 billion over the next 10 years … Of those, 12   
   > tax hikes would affect families earning less than $250,000 per year   
   > including a “Cadillac tax” on high-cost insurance plans, a tax on   
   > insurance providers, and an excise tax on medical device manufacturers.”   
      
   > And while we are on the issue of taxes … imagine where we would be if we   
   > had a tax system in place that didn’t allow for this type of   
   > manipulation. The tax code is a politician’s best friend because it can   
   > buy votes by giving unearned tax credits to the moochers while   
   > threatening to take from those evil people who earned it.   
      
   This is exactly what our Founding Fathers were trying to prevent.   
      
   They believed that the downfall of the Roman Republic was due to   
   "bread and circuses", and likewise that of the Athenian Republic   
   was to raiding the public treasury for boons.  Now, at least a   
   large proportion of Americans would accept serfdom over freedom.   
      
      
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   Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University   
   hrubin@stat.purdue.edu         Phone: (765)494-6054   FAX: (765)494-0558   
      
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