Dear, ACA — Thanks For Taxing Small Businesses That Work To Pay For Something That Doesn’t. — Signed, Direct Care

A White House aide set off a stampede of media criticism for Internet news pioneer Matt Drudge over Obamacare – but his critics don’t seem to get how small businesses pay their taxes.

The drama started when Matt Drudge tweeted, “Just paid the Obamacare penalty for not ‘getting covered’… I’M CALLING IT A LIBERTY TAX.”

Liberty tax, Obamacare penalty, whatever you call it, it’s a classic case of red tape. Ironic, right, that even in rebelling against an intrusive bureaucracy, by cutting the red tape, we still get stuck with it.

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