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2009-09-21

  • Big Hollywood has everything you need to know about efforts to turn the National Endowment for the Arts into a propaganda arm of the Obama Administration.

  • Like just about every American, Pun Salad is amused at President Obama's insistence that a mandate to purchase health insurance or face a fine is "absolutely not a tax increase." This was exacerbated by a further assertion: "Nobody considers that a tax increase."

    In response, the interviewer, George Stephanopoulos, quoted the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of "tax" to President Obama. Obama shot back that <sarcasm>Merriam and Webster were total racists</sarcasm>.

    Philip Klein makes the non-dictionary argument that the bill under discussion actually refers to the amount nicked from people who fail to buy health insurace as an "excise tax."


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