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‘Real News’: New ObamaCare Taxes and Fees to Kick in Soon, Some Democrats Change Tune

Dec. 11, 2012 8:00pm Christopher Santarelli

Nancy Pelosi once said that we’d need to pass ObamaCare so we could see what’s in it. Over two years since the health reform bill’s passage and we are still finding out some of the less than pleasant details, including a number of taxes and fees set to go into effect soon.

From a tax is to be placed on medical devices that will cost Americans more than $28 billion over the next decade, a $25 billion fee in 2014 to cover the uninsured, and a a new 3.8 percent Obamacare surtax on investment income for individuals who make over $200,000 a year, among other taxes and fees. Minnesota’s Democratic senators are raising alarms over the planned tax on medical devices, with Senators Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar–who mind you both voted for Obamacare–now arguing that the tax could be a job and innovation killer for Minnesota’s device companies including St. Jude Medical and Medtronic.

The “Real News” panel discussed the senators change of heart and when other Democrats will start to have to hear more “we told you so” on the inconvenient costs of ObamaCare:

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JacquesChirac
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:00pm
Is ANYONE, ANYWHERE in the lamestream media asking these two brilliant rulemakers WHY THEY VOTED FOR IT IN THE FIRST PLACE???

Sheese, Minnesota! You REALLY think sending these two Einsteins to represent you was the right thing to do??? Please, please, please make the right choice next time, OK?

How many times do I have to say it?!

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”

The United States of America is – BY FAR – the strongest nation on earth…

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toledofan
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:55pm
And this is only the beginning stages of implementing Obamacare, just wait until the death panels are in place and people see what they can and can’t get. This in concert with the impending tax increases via the financial cliff, whatever that is, is going to make many people very angry. So, you get what you elect and this time around the Democrats rule the roost, so, guess what, they own the problems as well.

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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:02pm
  Can O’Blamer be recalled ?????? I want OVERS !!!!
  
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- JacquesChirac
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:08pm
  No, no, no, Toledofan. Obamacare was all George Bush’s fault. I don’t know how, but you just know it was…
  
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- bumfuzeled
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 5:57pm
  to quote obama “elections have consequences”. The only winning move is not to play.
  
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nothinghere
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:07pm
i always thought there was a bill standing in the senate,passed by the house,to repeal o’bama-care,talk to reid.
if there is’nt one get it up and ready,and vote it out of the house to be included in the fiscal cliff debates.
could these senators be up for re-election in 2014.

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Bill Wallace
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:23pm
I would be going around Minnesota and saying, “Suck it B!tches. You got what you deserve. How does it feel?”

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MikeinIdaho
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:29am
Too late to ask any questions now, Sparky! Pelsi wasn’t kidding when she told us we’d have to pass this disaster to find out what’s in it. Now you Obamabots are about to find out just how badly you will be screwed by the communists in DC! Good luck, losers. As for the rest of us, lock and load, its’ almost time to dance.

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Pantloadian
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 9:52am
Sounds the same as all you conservatives who now whine about the Patriot Act. Fools.

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- M13
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:23am
  I know, Stuart Smally is a complete fool.
  
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jungle J
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 9:44am
The mentally ill write the rules today. Only the sane understand.

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PA PATRIOT
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 8:40am
As Gomer Pyle used to say
” SUPRISE SUPRISE…. SUPRISE”

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RIGHT_WHERE_IT_HURTS
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 8:29am
BWAHAHAHAHAHahahahaha…………………

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Kolbie
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 7:19am
The sad part is, even though we were told “we need to pass it to see what’s in it”, two years later WE THE PEOPLE still do not know what is really in it. Most frightening is the fact that the very ones that passed it don’t either. But alas, once the companies and individuals start paying some of these “Affordable Health Care” taxes we will all realize how unaffordable it really is. I am sure The Blame it on US Chief will take Air Force One on a nationwide tour to reinforce what the conserves have done to our country.

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- AZgirl9000
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 9:04am
  Obamacare has created jobs for the nameless people who are currently making up all the government regulations to go along with it. At this point in time, the original 2,700 pages has now metastasized to 13,000. Tens of thousands of pages of regulations are needed to “properly” implement all the intentions laid out in those first short, sweet 2,700 pages that almost nobody ever got around to reading. As just one example of how industrious the regulation writers are, it took 18 pages simply to define a “full time employee”.
  
  http://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2012/10/28/the-avalanche-of-new-obamacare-rules-will-come-in-january-2013/
  
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MNYukon
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 5:35am
Klobacher and Franken are on their knealing pillows kissing everything Obama wants. All of a sudden they wonder what will this do to the MN liberal vote. Maybe these healthcare companies were great campaign contributors to the two of them. Love this turn around on these two libs.

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- RightUnite
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 5:47am
  Love seeing those two idiots getting burned….
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 7:44am
  This yet another example of partisan politics Franken and Klobacher towed the party line just like all demoncrats do…..Fact is no bill should ever be signed because your party started it until the entire congress has read it and understands whats in it. Obamacare is a prime example of corruption at the highest level in a government it should be a blazing example of the evils of a two party system.We need a 50 party system each state representative representing their state and not their political party. Perhaps have an independent outside group read bills and have the congress take a test on their knowledge of it before they can vote on it.
  As for these two a-hole their voters should look at this as reason one to never elect a democrat ever again. And as for the two Republicans that jumped ship to vote on a bill they never even saw much less read they should be electorically crusified by thier voters
  
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betterpart
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:52am
Obenghazi’s healthcare plot is a political tool in the same way Obamphones, terrorism, et al is used as such.

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donkeykong
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 1:43am
This bill was NEVER about healthcare – just CONTROL.
Long ago, when our “leaders” were exempted from the
same laws they pass which affect US, was when the
first battles were lost. Now, they are too ingrained into
an all-consuming, self-serving monarchy, such that we
will never regain control by peaceful means (voting).
Maybe that’s why DHS has contracted for 1.6 billion
rounds of hollow-point ammo in the past 12 months.
The Geneva convention outlawed hollow-point ammo
for battlefield use – so who are the DHS going to use
these rounds on? Oh, wait – -our country is not a
battlefield….yet. US pop…..330 million+….rounds
ordered….1.6 BILLION……do the math.

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brigott
Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:05am
If a bill hasn’t been read before it is passed, how will anyone know what was added AFTER it was passed?

Could not whoever wrote the bill have just added anything he wanted to once it was passed? Nobody would have known that it wasn’t in there previously anyway.

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- donkeykong
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:02am
  Gee…after 2 attempts to reply to you, I can’t
  get through. Maybe Beck has Obumer operatives
  in his midst.??
  
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JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:45pm
The “health care bill” was never about health care
It is a cloaked “Cloward and Piven” virus designed to cause the bankruptcy of this nation.
Then with the right people in charge, they can bring it back under a new order of social justice for all.

It was never about health care, it was always about the end of America

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Chromo200
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:18pm
No kidding .. The Minn senator morons are speaking out . I think in protest Al Franken should wear a diaper sit in a wheel barrel and be wheeled down Pennsylvania Ave to the WH.

Now it is too late, this program should go through and let the people in Minn. see what idiots they elected, and next time get their brains straight and vote in proper thinking Senators.

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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:00pm
  These two toads are only speaking out because they are
  up for re-election in 2014..I would FIRE everyone who
  signed this obmanation….
  
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riddleman
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:14pm
Mr. Franken, the plea of fools goes like this, ” Why did you let us do this to ourselves”?

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