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2013-10-11 -Land of the Free

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Posted by trailing wife 2013-10-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Interesting thing about the ACA: No severability clause. If one part is struck down, it is possible the entire law can be struck from the books.

Posted by OldSpook 2013-10-11 01:55|| 2013-10-11 01:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Anybody know who likes to play at the course? I mean, who had enough pull to keep it open?

Not that he had to say anything; everyone from the top down to the greens keeper understood it had to remain open. It's not open to the rest of the world, anyway. No benefit to closing it.

Posted by Bobby 2013-10-11 06:29|| 2013-10-11 06:29|| Front Page Top

#3 ACA will not be struck down, it is a tax after all, I can not think of any tax that has been eliminated by Congress, only morphed into some other tax in the last 100 years.

Other minds wish to chime in ?

Posted by Jugum Speaking for Boskone8065 2013-10-11 10:24|| 2013-10-11 10:24|| Front Page Top

#4 As people eventually discover the premiums and annual deductibles [which are now hidden due to 'SW glitches], it will clearly be seen for what it is, a "tax".

A government that can globally monitor and store tellie conversations and e-mail, but cannot build a successful web-site after 3+ years and over $300 Billion dollars spent ?

Whom is bullshi**ing whom ?

Posted by Besoeker 2013-10-11 10:31|| 2013-10-11 10:31|| Front Page Top

#5 The SCT tax ruling had to do with the individual mandate -- which in a way was struck down. Majority held that Congress had no authority to make people buy anything. This is significant in its own way -- from 1937 to 1994 not one law was held unconstitutional for lack of Congressional authority.

Roberts said Congress could tax you which left the penalty in place. So they can't make you buy, but they can punish you for not buying -- and what is a tax if not a punishment?

Other parts of ObamaCare will almost certainly be struck down -- I'm thinking of provisions which limit religious freedom. Will the SCT throw out the entire law on that basis (and lack of severability)? Hard to say, but I would love to see it.

In the meantime, my personal favorite legislative attack is to permanently reduce the "tax" portion -- the penalty -- to $1. That makes it optional, which makes it a dead letter. All the House GOP need say is that they are cutting taxes.

Posted by Iblis 2013-10-11 10:41|| 2013-10-11 10:41|| Front Page Top

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