Rhetorical Tax Evasion
The IRS says it will fine or jail you for not paying Obama's mandate levy.

Originally Posted At The Wall Street Journal
September 29, 2009

President Obama's effort to deny that his mandate to buy insurance is a tax has taken another thumping, this time from fellow Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee. Chairman Max Baucus's bill includes the so-called individual mandate, along with what he calls a $1,900 "excise tax" if you don't buy health insurance. (It had been as much as $3,800 but Democrats reduced the amount last week to minimize the political sticker shock.) 
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Going 'nuclear' on freedom

Originally Posted At Politico
By SEN. Jim Demint 
September 8, 2009

As a matter of raw partisan politics, President Barack Obama and the Democrat Congress may have no choice but to resort to the “nuclear option” to pass their increasingly unpopular plan to take over American health care. In the teeth of intense public opposition, congressional Democrats are having a hard time cobbling together votes on their own side of the aisle.
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Government Spending Is Naked Without The Fed 

Originally Posted At Bloomberg
By Caroline Baum
September 14, 2009

Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama takes his show on the road today for what the White House says is a “major speech” on the financial crisis. And where better to deliver such a speech on the one-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse than Wall Street?
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Obamacare Runs Counter To GOP Principles

Originally Posted At The Washington Examiner
September 15, 2009

The individual mandate is the fulcrum of cooperation between government-run health care advocates and the big health insurance companies that would profit immensely if it's approved. As the Social Security Institute's Larry Hunter trenchantly observed, the big insurers "desperately want an individual mandate passed and will accept anything short of having their CEOs pushed out of an airplane door to get it." Such a "public-private partnership" will work no better for health care than it has in the mortgage industry with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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A BIPARTISAN PLAN TO WRECK THE SYSTEM 
The health-care address President Obama should really give to Congress.

Originally Posted At The Wall Street Journal
By Holman Jenkins
September 8, 2009

What follows is a leaked first draft of President Obama's speech on health care tonight, complete with instructions for Democrats in the audience. Members of Congress, Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of the Obama Youth Corps—I come to you tonight to speak frankly about our nation's health-care crisis and how we in Washington can make it worse.
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The Perils Of BaucusCare
More government-run health care, but on the installment plan.

Originally Posted At The Wall Street Journal
September 8, 2009

No doubt President Obama will tell Congress this evening that we're on the cusp of an historic moment in the history of American health care, and it's hard to disagree. Namely, ObamaCare may finally finish the work of converting health care into a largely government responsibility. At least that's the conclusion from reading the supposedly moderate health overhaul laid out over the weekend by Max Baucus, the Senate Finance Chairman. Washington is heralding the $880 billion plan as a compromise and political breakthrough, because it dumps the public-option insurance entitlement for the middle class.
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No To Care By Committee

Originally Posted At TampaBay.com
By Dr. David McKalip
September 5, 2009

President Barack Obama is right that the status quo has gotten us to a point where health insurance and medical costs are unaffordable for Americans. That status quo is one in which governments and large insurance companies hold all the money and power — and this would not change under any congressional proposal. In fact, Congress and the president would require every citizen to buy insurance or pay a penalty of 2.5 percent of their income. And Congress will reinforce the status quo with state-imposed rationing.
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Who Decides What

Originally Posted At The Washington Times
By Richard W. Rahn
September 1, 2009

Do you think pedophiles should be given Viagra at taxpayers' expense? Despite what appears to be an absurd question, that is exactly what occurred in Britain under their National Health Service (NHS). Reports surfaced last week that a pedophile who had abused an 11-year-old girl had been spared jail, yet was continuing to receive Viagra, courtesy of the British taxpayer.
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