Reply #212: This is one of the most disingenuous posts I've seen [View All]

[sabrina 1]

on DU.

I had an exchange with the OP about the fines that will be inflicted on the working who cannot pay for Private Insurance and which in the House Bill are being called 'excise taxes'.

The OP informed me that people who do not want to pay Insurance should have to pay a tax. I was not talking about people, apparenty s/he was talking about her/himself I see, who choose not to buy insurance, but those who cannot afford it.

The OP apparently doesn't believe that there are such people who will not be covered by this bill. S/he is convinced that anyone without insurance is responsible for that themselves. Iow, all those who have died, did so just out of stubbornness and selfishness because they wanted other people to pay their way.

The OP denies that the excise tax is a fine, punishment for those who will not be able to buy insuranc.

This is a deceptive attempt to get people to view what is a punishment, as a benigh tax being imposed on people like him/herself, who claims, and I'm not sure I believe it, s/he chooses not to pay. It is an attempt to confirm for him/herself that the rightwing meme that only selfish, laze people don't have Health Care.

It would have been far more honest to have linked to that exchange and then asked the question. But manipulation of the fines to pretend they are not punitive, was okay with him/her, so I suppose I should not be surprised.

Edited to add, I have unrec'd the thread for the reasons stated above.