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so you just moved the goal posts.
I moved nothing, this is what I've been saying all along.
first its "Obama broke his promise not to raise taxes on the middle-class".
Not accurate. He promised not to fund ACA with increased taxs and yet created a new tax.
now its "Obama broke his promise to not raise taxes on everyone that can't or won't afford health insurance, middle-class or not".
That's exactly what the Individual mandate tax does.
Obama has slightly raised the yearly taxes of folks who don't have and refuse to buy health insurance, whether they be billionaires or lower middle-class. Those taxes will go down as soon as they buy insurance or get a job that includes it.
Whether they go up or down is irrelevant. He emphatically claimed "No new taxs to support ACA"
suggesting that this can be considered a tax-increase on the middle-class, is intellectually absurd.
Ignoring reality to fit your partisanship is what is absurd.