MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell: Half of Obamacare is a new tax bill

MSNBC's house liberal, Lawrence O'Donnell, admits Obamacare legislation is half new taxes nobody is talking about. Well Mr. O'Donnell, conservatives are talking about the new taxes in Obamacare.



From the video:

O’DONNELL: I was down there yesterday in the Senate Finance committee markup. And nobody's covering what happened in the Senate Finance committee markup yesterday. No one covered anything that happened in the Ways and Means committee markup which lasted quite a while and created three new top tax brackets which America doesn't even know about. And the reason those things aren’t being covered is screaming about ‘death panels,’ yelling ‘you lie,’ and this stuff. This stuff is wonderfully diversionary and so the whole country has no idea. For example, what the – what half this legislation is. And half this legislation is a very big tax bill, a very big tax bill. New forms of taxation that are being invented have never been used before, nobody's talking about it because of this. It's very helpful to the Democrats and it’s very helpful to legislating, the more shows like this spend time on nonsense like that...