{"id":37613,"date":"2011-02-21T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:00:16","slug":"sheila_jackson_lee_on_obamacare_penalty_punishment_and_incentive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/02\/21\/sheila_jackson_lee_on_obamacare_penalty_punishment_and_incentive\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila Jackson Lee on Obamacare: Penalty, Punishment and Incentive"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: I love this sound bite. This is all the way from last Wednesday in Washington during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the constitutionality of the individual mandate in Obamacare, which they hate now, they don\u2019t like that term, they want it called the Affordable Care Act. So they want the lie to be perpetual and never ending, in terms of what this is. Sheila Jackson Lee, fast becoming our all-time favorite, more favorite than Maxine Waters. Stepping in for Major Owens. Remember Major Owens claiming that the sharks are still swimming the slave route out there hoping for bodies thrown overboard, as was the case some 200 years ago. Sheila Jackson Lee, just to refresh your memory, and for some of you young people in the audience who are not in school today for whatever phony, fake excuse &#8212; (interruption) Well, they get outta school today more than I ever did, Snerdley, and, frankly, it ticks me off. Teachers conference here, teachers strike there, spring break. There was no such thing as spring break when we were in school. I mean there might have been for college but not for high school, junior high. <\/line><paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"\/><BR\/>At any rate, Sheila Jackson Lee, this is the woman, you may not know this, but our little Mars rover was running around on the planet of Mars, and NASA is in Houston, it\u2019s her district in Congress, so they brought her in there as a matter of respect, and in an attempt to show everybody how smart she was she asked NASA, while the cameras are rolling, if the Mars rover would go over to where the astronauts had planted the flag. The problem was nobody had been to Mars yet, folks, and they still haven\u2019t been. The astronauts planted a flag on the moon. Sheila Jackson Lee, however, confused the moon and Mars. My guess is she spends a lot of time on both in many ways. So she has her credibility established as somewhat off the wall. So in this sound bite she\u2019s attempting to explain that the individual mandate in Obamacare requiring Americans to buy health insurance, and if we don\u2019t buy it, to face a penalty, or a fine or jail time, that\u2019s what the law is, buy a health insurance policy or if you don\u2019t, pay a fine. She\u2019s trying to explain how this is not a penalty. She\u2019s trying to explain how a penalty is punishment and this isn\u2019t punishment. This is actually a good thing. Here\u2019s Sheila Jackson Lee. Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>LEE: I would make the argument, one, that instead it is an incentive to do right, that it is not penalizing because penalty is punishment. You\u2019re not punished if you have health insurance, in fact. And so you are, in fact, incentivized to have health insurance, rather than take the negative, which is to suggest that because we have a penalty you are being punished.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So in case you\u2019re having trouble following that, since you are being forced to buy health insurance, which is a good thing, it\u2019s a good thing to have health insurance, you\u2019re being forced to, a penalty cannot possibly be punishment. A penalty is an incentive. Therefore this is totally constitutional. She\u2019s arguing here, although she didn\u2019t say it in this many words, she\u2019s arguing that Judge Vinson in Pensacola had no idea what he\u2019s talking about in ruling the commerce clause does not allow the Feds to make us buy things. The death penalty is an incentive. Every penalty is an incentive. It\u2019s not a punishment. There\u2019s no punishment here. Hockey players go to the incentive box. There\u2019s no penalty box. For some of you in Houston, that\u2019s your Congress babe, Sheila Jackson Lee. Our cameras and microphones are always there whenever she is. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: A couple e-mails. &#8216;Why do you persist in making fun of Sheila Jackson Lee? You know, Rush, that she\u2019s right. Ultimately, it is a good thing that you have health insurance. So therefore the penalty is not a penalty.\u2019 Folks, you start to worry me out there, now, some of you. Twenty-two years and still! What do I have to do here? If you do not buy health insurance under the now-unconstitutional mandate, you pay a penalty, a fine enforced by the IRS, but you DO NOT get health insurance. If you choose not to buy it, and opt for the fine instead, you don\u2019t have health insurance. Therefore Ms. Jackson Lee does not understand that when you pay the penalty, you don\u2019t get any health insurance. There\u2019s no incentive to the penalty. 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