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Bigmack

(8,020 posts)
Sun Mar 10, 2013, 05:14 PM Mar 2013

Cabela's...

Somebody posted a thread about handgun ammo being sold out at Cabela's, and it reminded me of one of the RW viral emails going around.

It seems that Cabela's was charging the "medical device tax" for items, and of course, the RWnuts jumped on it as an example of what Obamacare will cost.

It was a mistake... and debunked.. http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/medicaldevice.asp
...but of course the RW still is bleating about it... and emailing it to their idiot friends. They want sooo badly to believe anything bad about Obamacare.

My question: Anybody have any inkling about whether it was an honest - if incredibly stupid - mistake on the part of Cabela's, or was it something Cabela's did as a protest about Obamacare.

Was it a stupid error or a political statement?

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Cabela's... (Original Post) Bigmack Mar 2013 OP
No idea, but Cabela's headquarters is out of Nebraska, so if one were to play the odds.... hlthe2b Mar 2013 #1

hlthe2b

(112,907 posts)
1. No idea, but Cabela's headquarters is out of Nebraska, so if one were to play the odds....
Sun Mar 10, 2013, 05:55 PM
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