You all know the Stamp Act, right? It's one of the taxes that moved the United States to declare independence from Great Britain. I was reading about it and the colonists' reaction:

A country gentleman whose servant was afraid to go out to the barn on dark night asked him, "Afraid of what?"
"Of the Stamp Act," the servant replied. ^*

That's pretty intense. Imagine being too scared to leave your home because Obamacare is out in the wild now, lurking in the shadows.

^* Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 155.