Get ready to see the following video just about every time you turn on your TV between now and November:

President Obama's Pledge Never to Raise Taxes on Anyone Making Less Than $250,000 a Year

SCOTUS says it's a tax, so Obama has just raised taxes on everyone, including those who make under $250,000/Yr.

Politico: House will vote to repeal the Obama health care tax increase on July 9th.

Sorry for the wall of text and also if some of these quotes have been posted already, but I thought I would share some if the pants shiatting from the freepers.


Could John Roberts have been "blackmailed"? It may not be as farfetched as it sounds!
I think my husband and I are going to sell our home and his business. We are going to buy a camper and become gypsies! I am NOT giving one more damn dime to any of these marxists!

We are now all slaves.

 Welcome to the Communist States of America.

This nation is D.O.N.E. Now, all we need is for 0BowMao to be re-elected to put the final fork in it. It was a nice run since 1776. Will the last person out of this failing Ameritopia please turn off the lights?


The republic has officially ended. We are now officially a fascist democracy, and it will devolve into a tyrannical autocracy.


Roberts is more evil than Obama. He pretended to be a conservative, but he is nothing more than another beltway liberal who is more interested in cultivating his Washington society friendships than he is in protecting the Constitution, or the rights and liberties of Americans.

He is worse than Souter, he is the Chief Justice as well as being a traitor.
R.I.P. America


Every judge voting in favor of this should be impeached. They just torched the constitution.


Its time to join your local militia. Buy ammo and stock up on food too.

What does Obama have on Roberts?


I don't care if this gets nuked by a mod:
Roberts is a flaming farking bag of douche and has the legal mind of a pile of dogshiat.
If we're going to live in a socialist dictatorship I hope we at least get some snappy uniforms to wear.

 Now, anyone who does not get out and vote against Obama is officially an enemy of the United States.

I won't. I WILL NOT SUCCUMB TO THEIR SLAVERY ANYMORE!
If they darken my door they won't leave. My line has been drawn in the sand.
They can kiss my ass. 

OBAMACARE = SLAVERY

Will somebody please ping me wrt location, time, etc., of commencement of our rioting.

Great. Now we can look forward to doctors immediately closing up shop while patients will be left to be treated by Obama-voting, unqualified, affirmative-action hacks who can barely speak English working in government clinics.

It's a good day to be a Communist.

remembering that Roberts was the Justice who swore obama into office the second time, and in secrecy...why the secrecy?

There is no reason that a law could not be passed now that says
"you must buy 5 pounds of broccoli per month or pay a $100 fine"

It's way past time for a tax revolt in this country. Refuse to file, refuse to pay and refuse to become slaves!
Come and take it assholes! 

The language and the smirk tell you what this was about all along, and even 0bama alluded to it long ago.

It's reparations. 0bama said that he didn't favor a reparations payment, but instead preferred implementing perpetual social programs that achieved more wealth transfer in perpetuity, all the while keeping the race-grievance industry alive.

Looks like my prepping will be going into overdrive. If dear leader gets re-elected, he'll milk the legal standard this sets so much he'll make Hitler look like an amateur.

Welcome to full-blown Socialism!
America is no longer a Democratic Republic. Well, George, Ben, Thomas: we tried. Made it over a little more than 200 years, but your American Experiment is over. 

The last straw has just been placed on this citizen's back.
This is no longer the country of limited government as designed and demanded by the founders.
Secession has to tried again.
We have half the country which wants to live off the other half. Half believes the moral high ground is killing the unborn. Half the country hates the military while claiming to support it. Half the country completely disagrees with the founders brilliance of limited government.
We cannot resolve these differences EVER at the voting booth. Only a divorce between the parasites and the body of producers is a viable solution.
As it stands we are living in the roach motel and the roaches are keeping us hostage

Hmmm.... I wonder if the freepers are going ballistic.

/takes a little peek into that sad little place/

Oh yes, oh yes they are.

Just a reminder, the best deal in individual health care is to refuse to buy in to the mandate.

Marine1: Wasn't the individual mandate the conservative idea of healthcare? I actually think that would have been a nice place to start, actually.

Yeah, that's kind of the point. The Heritage Foundation is a very conservative right wing think tank. They conceived of the individual mandate as a Republican alternative to more "liberal" (i.e. like what the rest of the developed world has) policies that were being discussed in the late 80s and early 90s.

It's becoming further and further more difficult for me to comprehend how anyone could be believe that "Obamacare" and mandates are some Far Left Marxist Overreach when it was introduced into the national conversation by Conservative Republicans and the GOP in the 90s and now upheld by a Chief Justice, appointed by a conservative President, who votes along conservative lines the vast majority of the time

Daveism: Lernaeus: /looking forward to more "suck it" kindness and compassion from the left today

Keep hitting us with bricks and you expect hugs and kisses in return? fark you in the ass sideways with a screwdriver. How's that for kindness and compassion? Call us un-American, traitors, communists, and every other term you can think of to denigrate us? We're soldiers, nurses, police officers, emergency management officials and non-profit child welfare workers - and that's just in my damn immediate family.

WE'RE the ones expected to turn the other cheek? fark you. Your side clings to Jesus so much, where's the "turning of the cheek" that YOU'RE supposed to be so famous for? (also, didn't he have something to say about helping those less fortunate?)

Our kindness and compassion is reserved for those that actually deserve it.

meat0918: Weaver95: randomjsa: So all the people who thought that it being struck down would be the best thing ever for Obama are now going "holy crap now we're in trouble"?

which universe are you posting from anyway? do they have hot dogs in that universe?

They'll hammer on the "He raised your taxes" and the 85% of Americans that have health insurance already will say, "No he didn't, he raised someone else's taxes, not mine, and that's A-OK"

85% of Americans will either lose their coverage, pay more for what they have, or be forced to get better coverage, out of their own pocket.

Really would be great if liberals, for once, understood the situation. Remember, government dictates which plans qualify. 90% of HSA plans do not right now.

vernonFL: Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't one of the things that people don't like about Obamacare is that they'll be required to buy health insurance that they feel they don't need as they are in generally good health?

That is the whole issue. Say you're 25 and you say, "I'm young and healthy, I don't need insurance." So you don't buy any. Then, you get cancer and you try to get insurance, nobody will insure you because you have cancer.

One of my problems with Romneycare is that the young healthy 25 year olds can't just buy a bare-bones catastrophic coverage plan with a high deductible, which WOULD cover them for the long-shot cancer/car crash scenarios...they have to get comprehensive coverage. I guess the idea is to make the pool of insureds big enough.

Not sure if those type of policies would "count" under Obamacare.

Shostie: I'm taking credit for this, because my awesomnicitude is just that great.

It's an honor to read your posts.

I'm just waiting to hear what Bachmann has to say about this. You know it will be batshiat insane.

Fail in Human Form: Wow, freerepublic is losing its collective shiat right now

The internet hasn't been as amusing since Fox News dropped the comments section from the site, but Freep is doing their best.

Random Freeper: "I now know how someone who has been raped feels!"

WombatControl: bdub77: Doesn't matter. Americans got health care. This is a win for the American people, not just Obama. Obama will now go down as the first president who got Americans health care. His legacy in that regard, not to mention countless other things he's done as president, will solidify him as one of the greats.

And yes I expect him to fully whip Romney's ass in November.

WHISKY. TANGO. FOXTROT.

Really? Now Americans have health care? You mean no one in this country had health care prior to Obama? Is this what you really think?

Here's a clue: health insurance is not health care. All "universal" or "single-payer" systems work by rationing care. You want treatment for your rare cancer? Some government bureaucrat will determine that the treatment isn't cost effective, and you will either die waiting for it, or you'll never be given the chance. Not only do you end up dead in that scenario, but new and innovative treatments never get developed because said bureaucrat won't pay for them. Oh, but you have "free" health insurance - just not free health care.

Nothing is free. Health care is not free, and it can't be made free by government fiat. If the liberals got their way we'd have a system in which everyone but the ultra rich who could afford private insurace (or black-market care) is stuck waiting in lines for treatments they may never get.

If the statists got their way and we magically had an NHS-style system in the United States there would be riots in the streets because Americans do not take kindly to the government dictating to them what they can and cannot have. At least those Americans who still believe in the spirit of this nation's Founding, anyway.

What in the name of holy balls are you talking about? The NHS in the UK goes as far as to fly patiets with extremely rare conditions to specialist centres abroad, and covers everything.

Good luck getting an insurance company to do that. They're more likely to say that your tumour was growing when you started your insurance, so go die under a bridge.

I know of a child personally that was sent to a paediatric Proton centre in Jacksonville (she lives in Newcastle, England). The NHS even covered room and board for her parents in Florida.


So take your wacky lies and stick them right up your chuff-pipe.

I KNOW WHAT WILL SOLVE THIS! A RIOT!



\its caps lock day.

SuperT: So what about working poor whose employers don't offer insurance, they pay the tax that they can ill afford and what do they get in return? Do they get health care in return? Can someone fill me in on how this doesn't fark over the uninsured? I don't think we had a problem with people refusing or choosing not to have insurance, just unable to afford not offered or refused by insurance co.

Sure. Let me do my best.

Said employees will be directed toward the state-run exchanges for individual insurance. Mostly private providers, but at least Vermont will have a public option. The exchange plans will be community-rated and not subject to denial due to pre-existing conditions.

For anyone 'working poor' (let's say, under $50k family income), there are *huge* subsidies written in PPACA for purchasing insurance. Now, the actual funding for those subsidies is subject to the appropriations process each year, so that could get very dicey.

But, part of PPACA is that if a 'silver' plan (minus the subsidies) in the exchange costs more than 8% of your household gross income, you're exempt. If the subsidies are slaughtered, over half the nation would be exempt from the mandate.

This latter is an important point. Because you're exempt if your income is below a threshold, Roberts found that it is an income tax, not a capitation/poll tax in violation of the Constitution.

Headso: based on the comments in this thread it looks like "tax increase" is the talkingpoint people are being told to parrot.

I was thinking the same thing.

Well, this doesn't fix the fact that our healthcare costs are ridiculously over priced.

Which means, that in order to pay for them, the insurance will also be ridiculously over priced.

...yayy....

weave: What's best about this is the wingnuts planned the word Obamacare to be a derogatory term but now it will live for decades as a term giving a Democrat credit for something that they'll never be able to get rid of because people would go ape about it.

That's what my grandparents said about Roosecurity.

Sock Ruh Tease: My only question about the Freepers is: if conservatives start a civil war, will their health insurance cover assault rifle wounds?

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There's only one way to find out.

//Go stand over there by that wall for a moment if you don't mind.

"Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so. The whole thing remains unconstitutional. While the court may have erroneously come to the conclusion that the law is allowable, it certainly does nothing to make this mandate or government takeover of our health care right," - Sen. Rand Paul

Simply stunning.

Frankly we should just start calling this Federal Romneycare, which thankfully was upheld.
Roberts though,wow!

So when your company sees it cheaper to pay the fine and not offer you that HC package, will you still be dancing in the streets?

Thrag: That was unexpected. Equally unexpected is the one big health care stock in my portfolio is up 9% on the news.

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Expect it to more than double or triple in the coming years.

Sock Ruh Tease: My only question about the Freepers is: if conservatives start a civil war, will their health insurance cover assault rifle wounds?

I doubt a mass formation of "hover rounds" would be all the dangerous. Although all the EMTs required to keep them alive from exertion might be a slight burden to city governments' budgets.

Thunderpipes: RolandGunner: Well, in the long run it's the best possible outcome if the law was going to be upheld. By changing the mandate penalty to a tax and, ruling out the commerce clause justification, the bill is upheld without issuing a blanket authorization for the federal government to force the purchase of goods and services.

But it just did. If Obama wants you to do something, you do it, or the feds tax you. That is force. Just wait until Pubs in the states start pushing something you don't like and enforce it with a tax..... Will you like it then?

The conservatives here in Canada once passed the GST. Their party was so thoroughly decimated due to that and a constitutional blunder they split and were effectively destroyed for a decade.

Raising taxes, especially in this day and age, is equivalent to launching a nuke at your voter support, even when it's the right thing to do. There is no penalty or sanction anybody can impose on a political party that is more damaging than the fallout of actually raising taxes.

optimistic_cynic: The_Sponge: Remember when Obama promised that he wouldn't raise your taxes if you made less than $250K per year?

If you have health insurance they won't be raised.

Yup. This talking point is dumb for anyone who is exempted due to low income or anyone who has health insurance through their work.

My taxes aren't going up. He didn't lie to me.

And anyone who didn't know that the mandate was essentially a tax wrapped in another name was probably going to vote Romney anyway.

david_gaithersburg: I wonder who will be the first poor soul to be thrown in jail for choosing to feed themselves instead of feeding the insurance companies?

You do realize that you're exempt from the mandate if a silver plan would cost more than 8% of your gross income, right?

PunGent: vernonFL: Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't one of the things that people don't like about Obamacare is that they'll be required to buy health insurance that they feel they don't need as they are in generally good health?

That is the whole issue. Say you're 25 and you say, "I'm young and healthy, I don't need insurance." So you don't buy any. Then, you get cancer and you try to get insurance, nobody will insure you because you have cancer.

One of my problems with Romneycare is that the young healthy 25 year olds can't just buy a bare-bones catastrophic coverage plan with a high deductible, which WOULD cover them for the long-shot cancer/car crash scenarios...they have to get comprehensive coverage. I guess the idea is to make the pool of insureds big enough.

Not sure if those type of policies would "count" under Obamacare.

They do not. High deductible plans like that are illegal under the ACA. They will need to be replaced. This will further burden companies that employ kids fresh out of college and the kids themselves. Sure, they can stay on their parent's plan till 26 (and then parents pay more) but then they are screwed. They need a very high cost, low deductible plan or they get taxed.

ShadowLAnCeR: I KNOW WHAT WILL SOLVE THIS! A RIOT!

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\its caps lock day.

Just because we have "Canadian" healthcare doesn't mean we have to act like them.

Adolf Oliver Nipples: Three things:

1) Can we finally put to rest the notion that the Supreme Court was rigged for Republican initiatives? It's tiresome, and in reality the butthurt that usually comes from SCOTUS decisions is because it's your particular ox that's being gored, not because they're ideologically fixed and conspiring to fark Democratic initiatives.

What is the point of point up putting up straw men if you can't knock them down?


2) The Congress could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by simply calling it what it is, a tax. It was always a tax, and calling it something else was always a big charade. We need to get over this tax-averse attitude we have in this country if we wish to maintain any semblance of the standard of living we currently have. We can't continue to live off of other peoples' largesse for much longer.

Sure we can. Deficit? what's that?

3) Congratulations to Barack Obama on his reelection. This essentially sealed the deal, the rest is just pro forma screaming.

You honestly think any republican had a shot? Seriously? Short of Obama murdering a bag full kittens...with a bag full of puppies on national TV...it was a done deal in 2008.


And, there likely won't be much of a fight in 2016.

If obamacare tanks the economy (which could happen in 2014 when all the obamacare stuff really kicks in), 2016 goes to the republicans...
If obamacare gets million of people healthcare and only marginally affects the economy (or not at all..or the economy goes up)...democrats win. (becuase the ads won't say..."we raised everyone taxes on everyone to get healthcare for 5% of the country"....they will simply be "we ushered in a new era in healthcare!!!") Vote _____ in 2016.