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To: Latecomer
that taxing authority is Constitutional

Not really. It should require a constitutional amendment to make it legal.

9 posted on 07/01/2012 9:15:15 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (That which cannot be paid, won't be paid.)
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To: MulberryDraw

I think we all agree that taxing (or revenue-raising) is Constitutional. But this wasn’t a function of the revenue-raising/taxing authority. The bill that resulted in Obamacare originated in the Senate, not the House, and the penalty was deliberately portrayed as ANYthing but a tax. So far as I know, that process, that order of law-making, hasn’t changed. How can that “anything-but-a tax” be deemed a “tax” if it didn’t originate as a tax, didn’t follow the normal procedure for becoming a tax?


45 posted on 07/01/2012 10:29:59 AM PDT by Mach9
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