Pundit Press – by Dan ButcherThe sound bites just keep coming from Obamacare architect and MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, that could help the GOP if they actually take up the fight to do something about the disaster known as Obamacare.
A third video as now surfaced showing Gruber talking about how the “basic exploitation” of the ignorance of American voters contributed to the passage of Obamacare.
“In America, we have a pernicious feature of our tax code, which says that if MIT pays me in wages, I get taxed. But if your employer pays you in health insurance, you do not.
John Kerry said, ‘No, no. We’re not going to tax your health insurance. We’re going to tax those evil insurance companies. We’re going to impose a tax that if they sell insurance that’s too expensive, we’re going to tax them.’ And, conveniently, the tax rate will happen to be the marginal tax rate under the income tax code.
So, basically, it’s the same thing: We just tax the insurance companies, they pass on higher prices that offsets the tax break we get, it ends up being the same thing.
“It’s a very clever, you know, basically exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter.
“The dirty secret is the American voter doesn’t actually care about the uninsured. The dirty secret is: You can’t really get a law passed by saying, ‘We’re helping the uninsured.’ You have to make it about cost control to get it passed. Because that’s what the American public cares about.
“So they had to make this law not just about the uninsured, but about cost control. That was a challenge,” Gruber said in the video.
The American voter who thinks he/she is actually making a difference IS stupid. I’m happy to say that the low voter turnouts indicate more voters are getting wise to the scam.