Re: The new health care reform tax

"Cause I'm the Taxman… and you're working for no one but me" – from the song "Taxman" by the Beatles

This past weekend we received a campaign mail piece paid for with your tax dollars laughably entitled "Protecting Families' Financial Security". When selling the Healthcare "Reform" Bill that barely passed both the Senate and House without Republican support, Democrats in Congress said that the new mandate to force us to buy health insurance or pay a penalty was not a tax and our taxes would not rise.
However, according to Robert Pear of the New York Times, the Obama Administration has in court argued that they are allowed to implement this new mandate under the government's "power to lay and collect taxes". The reason they are in court is that twenty states and several private organizations have sued the federal government making the legal claim that this new mandate is unconstitutional and should be struck from the new law. In response the Administration is making the case, that the "power to lay and collect taxes" is more sweeping than the interstate commerce clause, in the scope of power it gives to the Federal Government.
Should the Administration prevail in the courts, not only would everyone be subjected to this new invasive tax, but further invasive taxation would be green lighted in future years. The only way to stop this attack on all of our wallets is to make sure true fiscal conservatives are in charge of both Houses of the Congress and the White House. While some elected Democrats are fiscally conservative, our own Congresswoman Linda Sanchez is not, as she has consistently voted to take more money out of the pockets of everyone, sometimes directly and sometimes through mandates like this new one, and then spend it on activities that have not solved the unemployment and foreclosure problems gripping her district. As such jobs have been killed-off in the district; the only new jobs come either in spite of government or are temporary due to temporary government funding. This is not the way to spur economic recovery in an economy where in some parts of Linda's district the unemployment rate is above 20%, with families losing their homes because they cannot find a job(s) that pays their bills.
Meanwhile the stated July unemployment number in L.A. County is 588,000 people, this does not include the numbers of folks whose unemployment benefits have stopped and have lost hope of finding a job or are scraping by with whatever temporary work they can get. On top of that, newspapers are filled with going out of business auctions where small, medium and large businesses are selling off equipment and inventory after laying-off workers, because these businesses can't pay their bills after paying their taxes and regulatory compliance costs.
Last thought, it is heartbreaking when one considers that the only real growth industries left in California are auction houses and politics, thanks to fiscally irresponsible career politicians like Congresswoman Linda Sanchez.

Matt Kauble
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