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The New York Sun:The court’s ruling that Congress does have the power to pass Obamacare under the taxing power is, to put it mildly, unconvincing. The court acknowledged that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act itself refers to the mandate by describing the consequences of a failure to obtain health insurance as a “penalty.” It says that the use of that description is “fatal” to the applicability of a law that says the court can’t hear a tax case at this stage of things, since it’s a penalty and not a tax. Then it turns around and says it’s not fatal to the ability of Congress to use the taxing power to pass the mandate in the first place. This is what the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, calls a “functional approach.”
Our guess is that distinction will strike most people as a lawyer’s self-parody. But we’re for bowing to the Court and throwing oneself into the political fray. The Court’s ruling sets up Governor Romney to remind us again that the taxing power is the most dangerous of the powers handed to the Congress.
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4 comments:
Shorter wingnuts: We h8z the New Deal, and also that Civil Rights Act of 1964.
But only for GOOD REASONS, of course!
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Shorter Wingnutz II:
Hey, we don't really WANT the poor colored folks to die from easily treated conditions, we just don't want to contribute ONE RED CENT of our own money to make sure that doesn't happen.
It pretty much just sucks to be a a poor brown person in America.
Is that shorter?
Nice Instant Karma picture of the baby-killer getting his reward in the here & now.
Burn Killer Burn!
The Court’s ruling sets up Governor Romney to remind us again that the taxing power is the most dangerous of the powers handed to the Congress.
Mitt!
And is there anyone on Earth who really honestly thinks that if the health care stuff had failed Mitt wouldn't be running on his ability to get EXACTLY THE SAME THING passed? Or that conservatives wouldn't then be 100% for the health care law we now have?
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