This Week With George S....
Obama responded: ” No, but — but, George, you — you can’t just make up that language and decide that that’s called a tax increase.”
Stephanopoulos then offered the dictionary definition.
“I don’t think I’m making it up. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary: ‘Tax, a charge, usually of money, imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes,’” he said.
Visibly taken aback, Obama rejected the notion it was a tax increase and said pulling the dictionary out was a sign the host was “stretching” a little.
“No. That — that’s not true, George. The — for us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase,” Obama said.
OK, so this is the kind of thing that makes US think that Obama and Congress think WE are just STUPID!
Don’t call an Overhaul a Reform.
Don’t tell me 50 mil new people will be on “the plan” and nothing will change.
Don’t tell me it won’t cost US one dime.
Let’s have a REAL DEBATE about what it will take to insure all Americans and “visiting workers” (cough, cough), but don’t keep trying to skirt around technicalities and nuances of the English language. One of the reasons the English language is most frequently used is because we have more words than any other language, which allows us to be VERY CLEAR! And calling the use of a dictionary a “stretch” after he just got finished speaking to America’s school children about their education is really blasphemous.
