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High court upholds key part of Obama health law
AP ^ | 06-28-12 | Mark Sherman

Posted on 06/28/2012 7:29:46 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA

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To: Lazlo in PA

Anyone have an idea how this can be mandated as a tax, and be constitutional with so many specific groups, such as Congress or Illegal Immigrants, Native American tribes, certain Religions.....exempted?


61 posted on 06/28/2012 7:53:42 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: nerdgirl

Judges are creatures of government. They live off of the government, they exist because of government. Judges hate self help. Judges need dependency more than any other branch.


62 posted on 06/28/2012 7:53:45 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Lazlo in PA

It’s a good day to be a Communist.


63 posted on 06/28/2012 7:53:56 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The only good Zombie is a dead Zombie, oh wait...)
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To: jjm2111
No need to pull anything on this matter. We just got jerked off royally by SCOTUS and why not tell it like it is? Looks like the government can now tell us what to buy and when we have to buy anything. I want to know how a person that lives below the poverty line can ever afford to buy health insurance? If i have to buy it, so should they, and i want to know since i will have to pay for theirs will i get a tax deduction and be able to use them as dependents? Either way the comments on Roberts were well written and certainly made me laugh. You Sir call them like you see them.
64 posted on 06/28/2012 7:54:44 AM PDT by Plumberman27
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To: mass55th

I don’t think they “mandated a tax”,
they ruled that the mandate WAS a tax,

and therefore passed constitutional muster.

The 0bama admin was arguing that it wasn’t a tax only for the purpose of deflecting the “tax increase” label.


65 posted on 06/28/2012 7:55:10 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Norseman

Well that didn’t take long:

http://shop.cafepress.com/impeach-john-roberts


66 posted on 06/28/2012 7:55:10 AM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left-Completely!)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Romney better get his a$$ to the microphones pronto and give a statement on this. Where is he?


Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha! His roomful of elves twisting their hands trying to come up with the right milquetoast response takes hours if not days.


67 posted on 06/28/2012 7:56:17 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: cripplecreek

Enforce it. BITCHES.


68 posted on 06/28/2012 7:56:18 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Mountain Mary

remembering that Roberts was the Justice who swore obama into office the second time, and in secrecy...why the secrecy?


69 posted on 06/28/2012 7:56:26 AM PDT by silverleaf (Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell)
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To: Norseman; All

When and Where is the first anti-slavery rally?

OBAMACARE = SLAVERY


70 posted on 06/28/2012 7:56:30 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: VikingMom

MSNBC just called it “the Roberts Supreme Court”.


71 posted on 06/28/2012 7:56:34 AM PDT by corlorde (forWARD of the state)
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To: jjm2111
"If we’re going to live in a socialist dictatorship I hope we at least get some snappy uniforms to wear."

I'll have my designed by Hugo Boss please.

72 posted on 06/28/2012 7:56:59 AM PDT by Edward Teach
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To: Sister_T

Agreed but that is going to take a Congress with the stomach and stones to do it.


And where will we find these people? It sure as hell ain’t the Republicans.


73 posted on 06/28/2012 7:57:22 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Lazlo in PA

The last straw has just been placed on this citizen’s back.

This is no longer the country of limited government as designed and demanded by the founders.

Secession has to tried again.

We have half the country which wants to live off the other half. Half believes the moral high ground is killing the unborn. Half the country hates the military while claiming to support it. Half the country completely disagrees with the founders brilliance of limited government.

We cannot resolve these differences EVER at the voting booth. Only a divorce between the parasites and the body of producers is a viable solution.

As it stands we are living in the roach motel and the roaches are keeping us hostage


74 posted on 06/28/2012 7:57:46 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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To: Norseman
As disappointed as I am in this decision I think you're right and almost the same words I used with my wife; the awakening of the sleeping giant.

There were, of course, other factors but Obamacare was a big part of the election results of 2010.

One can hope.

75 posted on 06/28/2012 7:57:57 AM PDT by Proud_texan (Scare people enough and they'll do anything.)
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To: dfwgator

I agree, it’s just unthinkable that this man could have done this. I’m taking it very personally I suppose - but I had a lot of faith that his core values would guide him, and I always thought he was a very conservative man to the core. Seems not so much - to have sided AGAINST Kennedy even - caramba that is just bizarro and I can’t make a lot of sense of it, other than to think that his ego is bigger than his “conservative values”. The whole “I’ll just be an umpire calling balls and strikes thing”... I mean give me a break, that’s the kind of thing you can say to get appointed, but all judicial decisions are affected to some degree by your underlying beliefs, your political philosophy, and your view of federal power vs. states rights.

I think Roberts looked for any way possible to uphold this thing, because he is more concerned with being seen as this “umpire” character than anything else.


76 posted on 06/28/2012 7:58:06 AM PDT by nerdgirl
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To: mass55th

Yes, not that the Black Robbed C—ksuckers have not written law in the past......But I didn’t realize they were elected representives able to create and pass laws?

“How can the court deem a mandate a tax?”

I had a feeling if they struck this POS obamacare down then then SS and Medicare would be on thin constitutional ice.

Newt was right.....ALL ASSHOLES voting for this should be IMPEACHED.


77 posted on 06/28/2012 7:58:25 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their Moonbats)
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To: MrB
"they ruled that the mandate WAS a tax..."

Thanks for explaining it so this dummy can understand it. Obama and the Dems own it then, and if the Republicans don't push it that way this election year, then they're the dummies and not me.

78 posted on 06/28/2012 7:59:14 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Norseman

Support the Tea Party. Whatever you can give! I just did. I also made a contribution to the Republican Party. Carville said this is the end of the Tea Party. Prove him wrong!


79 posted on 06/28/2012 7:59:46 AM PDT by southernmomma
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To: unixfox
Enforce it. BITCHES.

Well that's not very civil. LOL
80 posted on 06/28/2012 8:00:24 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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