Obama lies and here is more proof!

Posted July 20th, 2010 by "Yawn"

A July 16th NY Times Money & Policy section article Changing Stance, Administration Now Defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax, documents the court briefs which expose that, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”

Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate, now being challenged in court by more than 20 states and several private organizations.

Under the legislation signed by President Obama in March, most Americans will have to maintain “minimum essential coverage” starting in 2014. Many people will be eligible for federal subsidies to help them pay premiums.

In a brief defending the law, the Justice Department says the requirement for people to carry insurance or pay the penalty is “a valid exercise” of Congress’s power to impose taxes.