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Michele Bachmann: What she was saying is: Don't provide health insurance for your employees. Just push your employees out in the cold.…

On the recordMarch 25, 2014
What she was saying is: Don't provide health insurance for your employees. Just push your employees out in the cold. They can sit on the curb. They won't have employer-sponsored insurance--which, by the way, has zero tax consequence to the employee. They have no tax consequences. Under ObamaCare, every American is forced to buy a product whether they want it or not, even if they can't necessarily afford it. So then people now under ObamaCare have to go buy a product that the government dictates to them they have to buy at a price that the government dictates that they have to pay. So either they get health insurance with no tax consequence or they have to buy their health insurance with after-tax income, money that they have already paid taxes on. Now they are going to get double-hurt under ObamaCare. So, what the President wins, the American people lose. That is our choice. The President wins; the American people lose--financially, freedom, most importantly in this case, religious liberty, and that is not acceptable under our constitutional guarantee of liberty. I don't care who it is, because the Magna Carta taught King John at Runnymede that no man is above the law, especially the King, because that is who you have to worry about. It is no different in the United States of America. No man is to be above the law, including the President of the United States. He can't just change a law with the stroke of a pen or with a telephone call.…
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Michele Bachmann
Minnesota
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Mar 25, 2014

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