“Passage Of The Healthcare Bill Means The Double-Dip Is Coming” – Market Insight From Permabull Jim Cramer Who Just Turned Bearish

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
March 22, 2010

Jim Cramer may be in hot water with the SEC over his theStreet.com, and he may be a mouthpiece for the biggest ponzi enabling organization the developed world has ever seen, however, he did have some interesting and spot-on observations on the just passed health care bill. In a nutshell, and for once we agree with Cramer, if futures are not limit down right now, it is because of the same bidding hand that has kept the market going straight up at a 30 degree angle for the past year.

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Either the market doesn’t care that the health care bill will pass –  and it will — or it doesn’t think that the proposal will cost that much — something I think is nuts. Which brings us to a very tenuous crossroad: We have to wonder if this is one of those occasions, like in 2008, where the market doesn’t see the coming catastrophe. Or perhaps the market sees any resolution as positive.

I don’t. I think when the health care bill passes — and it will pass, I believe, because Nancy Pelosi has worked diligently behind the  scenes to bend the anti-abortion foes, the key votes, to her will — the president will get a second wind. That means the whole agenda — cap-and-trade, Card Check for easier organizing (something that Wal-Mart’s (WMT) inability to move even on its dividend boost tells you is coming) and amnesty for immigrants who are currently not citizens — will quickly come to pass, perhaps even before the election. To pay for these items I see a dramatic increase in ordinary tax rates and perhaps capital gains and dividend tax rates in 2011 either reaching or exceeding those ordinary income rates as this current version of the Democratic Party believes that only rich people own stocks. (That’s been a hallmark from Day 1 with this administration.)

Given those hurdles, which include a suicide pact with financial health for small businesses that obviously can’t afford health care without risking the capital formation necessary, I think you have to put the double-dip recession back on the table.

Those who have read me here and watch “Mad Money” know that I was out there early thinking that 2010 would not produce a double-dip, despite ample commentary that it would. But if health care reform passes, I am going to revise my thinking — and you know I think it will — especially because immigrant amnesty will cause the health care system to be overloaded and our taxes to soar.

The stakes seem so high while the market appears so complacent, perhaps because none of the levies will pass until 2011. To me that’s around the corner. It’s been slightly more than a year that I have been bullish. That’s hanging by a thread this week.

Obamacare cuts that thread. Even if the market doesn’t seem to know it.

This article was posted: Monday, March 22, 2010 at 5:23 am

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