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Call it a financial penalty for not carrying insurance or call it a tax. It's really just semantics.The mandate under the Commerce Clause is unconstitutional. The mandate as a tax is okay. l]
Congress: Its Not a Tax. SCOTUS: Yes It Is.
Posted by Michael F. Cannon
The Supreme Court ruled that ObamaCares individual mandate is not constitutional under the Commerce Power, which was how Congress framed the mandate to avoid a political backlash from calling it a tax. Congress and the president swore up and down that the mandate was not a tax. Yet the Court upheld the mandate as a valid use of that disavowed taxing power. What Congress said the individual mandate is, the Court said is not constitutional. What Congress said the mandate is not, the Court ruled is constitutional. Everybody got that?
Where does that leave us?
The Supreme Court just enacted a law that Congress never would have passed.
The Court just told Congress it is okay to lie to the people to avoid political accountability.
Michael F. Cannon June 28, 2012 @ 11:58 am
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Roberts tied himself a pretty good semantic knot to justify this, didn't he. A single man ruling that it is, and is not, a tax.