President Obama and ABC News' George Stephanopoulos got in a testy sparring match Sunday over whether the president's health care plan includes a tax increase, leading the host to look up the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of taxes.

In the interview airing Sunday, Stephanopoulos pressed the president on his plan to require people to purchase health insurance.

"Under this mandate, the government is forcing people to spend money, fining you if you don't. How is that not a tax?" the host asked.

Obama responded: " No, but -- but, George, you -- you can't just make up that language and decide that that's called a tax increase."

Stephanopoulos then offered the dictionary definition.

"I don't think I'm making it up. Merriam-Webster's dictionary: 'Tax, a charge, usually of money, imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes,'" he said.

Visibly taken aback, Obama rejected the notion it was a tax increase and said pulling the dictionary out was a sign the host was "stretching" a little.

"No. That -- that's not true, George. The -- for us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase," Obama said.

Click here to see the exchange with Obama.

If someone chooses not to have auto insurance, it should be his/her perogative to do so. If he/she causes property or medical damages, he or should should be mandated to pay. If he/she doesn't, why not garnish his/her wages and such?

So he is lying. Wow - who would have guessed it?

Na. I think he actually believes what he's saying.

It isn't a tax because he really really REALLY doesn't want it to be one.

So he believes that he gets to define what a word means in opposition to the dictionary and the rest of the English-speaking world?

He wouldn't be the only liberal I've seen believe this. In fact, Limbaugh's been maintaining (for at least a decade) that liberals have been appropriating the "evolution" of the language for quite a while now.

He wouldn't be the only liberal I've seen believe this. In fact, Limbaugh's been maintaining (for at least a decade) that liberals have been appropriating the "evolution" of the language for quite a while now.

Indeed.

That's one of the biggest things I got from Levin's book, actually. In order to win, we have to take the language back.

Homeschooling and private tutoring. I've been toying with the idea for a year and a half of setting up an agency that provides supplies to people who will tutor neighborhood children in history and civics in various age groups.