Chuck Norris kicks Obamacare in the tax

Chuck Norris is getting his kicks in with Obama, SCOTUS, Taxes and Your Freedoms when he reminds us that President Obama insisted that Obamacare was not a tax and yet Obama administration attorneys argued in court at various times that it was a tax. Quote:

Verrilli answered Justice Elena Kagan's question of whether noncompliance with the individual mandate would result in breaking the law by saying that if people "pay the tax, then they are in compliance with the law." That reference caught the attention of Justice Stephen Breyer, who interjected, "Why do you keep saying tax?"

Because it was a tax, ask Chief Justice Roberts. Norris goes on to quote from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1816:

"We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers."

"We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Well said, Mr. Jefferson. You too, Mr. Norris. But let's move on from there to a more recent president. Here's a quote from Ronald Reagan:

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

A trillion-dollar debt. Ha ha! Spare change Ron, spare change.

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