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Many years back,\u00c2\u00a0Megan McArdle<\/a> wrote that people who want higher taxes can just tax themselves and donate the excess. Their failure do this reveals their hypocrisy, so they should STFU.<\/p>\n That’s silly.<\/p>\n There was another example of this over the weekend. Tomi Lahren, \u00c2\u00a0a conservative internet personality, decries Obamacare to beat the band. It so turns out that the 24 year-old benefits from a central provision of the law (that children can remain on their parents’ health insurance until the age of 26). To some (and to judge by internet trends many) this is some kind of rank hypocrisy<\/a>:<\/p>\n Tomi Lahren<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0says the\u00c2\u00a0Affordable Care Act<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0is a disaster that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in a death spiral, but that hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stopped her from benefitting from it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n During an\u00c2\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0with comedian\u00c2\u00a0Chelsea Handler<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0at Politicon, the controversial 24-year-old conservative commentator trashed Obamacare for 10 minutes before admitting to the crowd that she was, in fact, still on her parents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 health insurance plan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Okay, so do you have a health care plan or no?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Handler asked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, luckily I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m 24, so I am still on my parents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lahren said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The irony was not lost on the audience, which promptly started to boo, laugh and chant,\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thanks, Obama!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n A law as complex as Obamacare (it was many pages long<\/a>, remember), affects pretty much everyone. This makes it nearly impossible for one to avoid benefiting (or suffering from) some of its provisions. The fact that Lahren benefits from a provision of it does not make her a hypocrite anymore than the non-volunteering tax payer of Megan McArdle’s imagination.<\/p>\n Indeed, as we’ve probably pointed out before, the practical impossibility of avoiding something is often a condition of laws. If this fact–the fact that you’re subject to thing you disagree with–were disqualifying, it’d be very hard to have disagreements in a democracy at all.<\/p>\n For more on tu quoque arguments, see this post by Scott<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many years back,\u00c2\u00a0Megan McArdle wrote that people who want higher taxes can just tax themselves and donate the excess. Their failure do this reveals their hypocrisy, so they should STFU. That’s silly. There was another example of this over the weekend. Tomi Lahren, \u00c2\u00a0a conservative internet personality, decries Obamacare to beat the band. It so … Continue reading Hypocrisy that isn’t<\/span> \n
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