When Is A Tax Not a Tax?

Stop me if you've heard this one! It's when a liberal has promised that he wouldn't raise taxes.

Remember that promise? Dover, N.H., Sept. 12, 2008.

"I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

Well, you might be paying a lot more money, and it might be collected by the IRS, and the bill might call it a tax – but the president promised that he wouldn't raise taxes, and so it's not a tax. Just two days ago, I saw a group setting up at a festival from the local Dems, and they were handing out papers saying that there would be no tax increase associated with the health plan. In fact, taxes should go down, because everything is set up to save so much money.

I just hope, for their sakes, that their government-mandated healthcare plan covers the marijuana that they're smoking.

- Ronald Rightside