I don’t care much for Romney — he is too willing to be Liberal on social issues that I disagree with. But I like Obama even less — who is Extremely Liberal across the board. The Federal Government is rapidly becoming too powerful and worse yet, abusive of that power. The National Debt has increased at the highest rate since WWII under Obama. Say what you want to when they give you your talking points. I can read the numbers right off the Government’s own web site and am capable of doing the math. It is ugly. Are you telling me that you are not smart enough to do the math? Maybe you don’t like the math — there are a lot of people that *hate* any math, and that does not make you a bad person — but this is one place you should figure out how to run the numbers for yourself.

And in 2014, expect me and a lot of Americans to look at the cost of the “tax” or mandated “penalty” and figure what is best. It may mean getting catastrophic insurance until something happens that requires better insurance. In many states, there can be *no* waiting period for benefits, and now they will not be able to deny it. So, say my child needs an appendix out. I can get insurance in a day. Just like the mother, (who is doing what she feels she has to in order to support her family — I don’t hold this against her) who decides that she has to get pregnant in order to keep her Welfare Benefits, we will “game” the system. Yup, it is broken — you just can’t see it. Good luck trying to close that loophole. It will *only* screw over the lower and middle class Americans. And healthcare costs will go up at the same time they discover that ObamaCare does not fund itself, or more correctly, will not have succeeded in pushing the cost of supporting it over to the states. Most states are seeing the trap set by jumping into that “National Pool” and are wisely avoiding it. Without the states jumping in, and agreeing to fund that pool, it is going to become a nightmare. The real giggle is that the most “Progressive” States are more likely to have pressure to jump in, and the Liberals who push them there will, for once, be those that actually have to foot the full bill for their Liberalism! Better yet, those states will see an influx of people trying to take advantage of that system. The Blue States will become Bluer and Poorer and more heavily taxed. The rest of the Country will be able to see why, and hopefully will be smart enough to avoid it.

God Bless America. Happy 4th of July!

BTW, mandated penalty or a tax, it “functions” as a regressive tax, which was the justification for the SCOTUS to rule that it was just that.

Frankly, I don’t care. It is a tax that does *not* hit the rich. Or a penalty they will never have to pay. It *only* impacts middle class and lower class Americans.