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DOCTOR ZERO: The Terms of the Deal. ?When Barack Obama tries to convince you to accept a governmen?

By Glenn Reynolds

DOCTOR ZERO: The Terms of the Deal. “When Barack Obama tries to convince you to accept a government takeover of the health-care industry, he is making a promise he won?t be around to keep. ObamaCare?s job-killing taxes are front-loaded, but in order to fool the Congressional Budget Office into giving it a respectable deficit score, its benefits are delayed for years. Even if Obama wins re-election, he would complete his second term long before the program was completely phased in? and no external authority exists to compel either Obama, or his successors, to honor the promises he?s been making. . . . It would be a horrible mistake to accept a deal with the creators of history?s most staggering natonal debt, based on assurances they will place your interests ahead of theirs, for decades to come. As Darth Vader memorably explained to Lando Calrissian, the State can always alter the terms of the deal, and your only recourse will be praying they don?t alter it any further.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 19, 2010 (boomark / email).