- Since the CBO claims that 15m people will leave the indiv market if not for the mandate, Trump could declare it void bc its "coercive."
- (1) No. The government argued that the mandate was a tax. Roberts disagreed. Therefore he said that the PENALTY was a tax.
- (2) Roberts said he was obliged to do whatever possible to save the statute. He thus saved the government from itself.
- (3) A mandate consists of two parts: a requirement and a penalty for not meeting the requirement.
- (4) No matter how many times you take this back to the Supreme Court, they have the ability to rule on the penalty, not the requirement.
- (5) You can't FORCE the court to rule only on the mandate. Why not?
- (6) Because it can't be a mandate without a penalty. The court can always save ObamaCare by calling the penalty a tax.
- (7) All the plans to ask the court to rule on legality of taxes, subsidies, etc. are LOSERS. Roberts has already told you that TWICE.
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- I and most folks think he was blackmailed in some way.
- (1) I understand, but he's now said twice in plain language that Supreme Court precedent requires him to find laws constitutional.
- (2) He didn't pull his reasoning out of his butt. You can easily follow his reasoning.
- (3) I think the chances that he was blackmailed are zero.
- (4) The scope of the law simply made it more likely that the court would uphold it.
- Brilliant ThomasThanks
- is it because the tax/penalty is a form of excise tax forbidden from govt use by the constitution
- (1) The tax-penalty issue doesn't matter.
- (2) What matters is that the Supreme Court must do everything it can to render a statute constitutional.
- (3) Since presidential executive orders have had such a massive scope, Trump will have no problem writing one to repeal ObamaCare.
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Get rid of Obama Care.
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