{"id":28734,"date":"2012-07-03T05:30:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T10:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28734"},"modified":"2012-07-02T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T17:04:28","slug":"a-punch-in-the-stomach-of-middle-class-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28734","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Punch In The Stomach Of Middle-Class Taxpayers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest burden of Obamacare &#8211; one of the biggest entitlement programs in US history &#8211; will be borne by <em>middle class taxpayers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ixRRuzmxzTg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;99%&#8221;. \u00a0Or rather, the half of the 99% that pay taxes, and maybe then some.<\/p>\n<p>The left will try to divert this, saying that the penalty for not buying insurance is, in and of itself, not the biggest tax increase in history. \u00a0And they&#8217;re right.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not the only tax that Obamacare imposes, and imposes squarely on the middle, entrepreneurial and working classes.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Gross <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letfreedomringblog.com\/?p=13290\">notes<\/a> that Obamacare is a 21 tax salute for Minnesotans:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.letfreedomringblog.com\/?p=13290\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-FFm1jgJAmPo\/T-1XLLya9jI\/AAAAAAAAAYE\/VRz5E1fiWko\/s1600\/21TaxHikes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"582\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That includes a job-killing (or at least job-deferring, which if your&#8217;e unemployed is the same as a job kill) .9% addition to the payroll tax to pay for Obamacare, as well as a tax on dividends.<\/p>\n<p>All of which, let us not forget, defiers the one thing that actually \u00a0<em>can <\/em>help America get on top of the heath care crisis &#8211; job creation and recovery from the Obama recession!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest burden of Obamacare &#8211; one of the biggest entitlement programs in US history &#8211; will be borne by middle class taxpayers. The &#8220;99%&#8221;. \u00a0Or rather, the half of the 99% that pay taxes, and maybe then some. The left will try to divert this, saying that the penalty for not buying insurance is, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28753,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28734\/revisions\/28753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}