Nancy Pelosi is just a "Ding Bat" - A 'tax' by any other name smells just as foul to GOP

If nothing else, Sarah Palin gets to the heart of the matter. When Pelosi was going through her crazy gyrations of trying say Obamacare was not really a tax after the Supreme Court said it was, Sarah Palin said Pelosi is just a Ding Bat. That about covers it.

A 'tax' by any other name smells just as foul to GOP - Washington Times
Valerie Richardson 7-2-12  ...

The Supreme Court may call it a tax and Republicans may call it a tax, but Democrats insisted Sunday that the fee for noncompliance with the Affordable Care Act bears no resemblance to the T-word.

White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew called it a “penalty” and estimated that it would affect only about 1 percent of Americans.

“Let’s be clear on who that 1 percent is: Those are people who can afford health insurance, who choose not to buy it, and then when they get sick they go to the hospital and the cost gets spread among all the people paying for insurance,” Mr. Lew told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.” “The court found it constitutional. Frankly, what you call it is not the issue.”

Mr. Stephanopoulos noted that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.described it as a tax.

“We call it fair,” Mr. Lew said.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, also refused to use take the “tax” bait in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“No, it’s a penalty,” she said. “It’s a penalty that comes under the tax code for the 1 percent perhaps of the population who may decide that they are going to be free-riders. But most people are not affected by it. No, no, it’s not a tax on the American people; it’s a penalty for free-riders.”

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