Posted on 07/29/2014 9:32:29 AM PDT by jazusamo
A key appeals court on Tuesday ruled that despite including a tax, Obamacare doesnt violate the Constitutions requirement that all tax bills originate in the House of Representatives, giving the Obama administration another health care win. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said that the Obamacare tax was incidental to the primary purpose of the Affordable Care Act, so it isnt a revenue-raising measure as envisioned by the Constitution. Some exercises of the taxing power are not subject to the Origination Clause, the unanimous panel concluded. The issue had been in doubt after Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.s surprise decision two years ago saying that while Obamacare wasnt allowed under Congresss powers to control interstate commerce, it was valid as an exercise of Congresss taxing power. Since the key language of Obamacare came from the Senate, opponents then said it violated another part of the Constitution that requires tax bills or, more specifically, revenue-raising measures to begin in the House.
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Amen to that.
It would be the "Blame Bush" game all over again. So what, we've heard it all before.
That is some of the most tortured logic since the traitor Roberts did his thing.
None dare call it treason
Constitution = Just words.
Black Robed Legislators.
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills. U.S. Const. art. I, § 7
“Some exercises of the taxing power are not subject to the Origination Clause” U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
These judges are liars.
Only is when we meet our Maker
I wonder if the Founding Fathers ever realized that having the chief executive pick such judges really defeats separation of powers, since the judicial branch then becomes an extension of the executive branch?
Uh, won`t be another GOP President.
obama/soetoro is fundamentally transforming America with 10 - 20 new foreigners to insure one ideology ( yeah 2 parties, one mind) rule.
You may get a Romney or a Christie but NEVER a Goldwater. They tried that once and the Statist Totalitarians made mince meat on him
That’s about it...
Let’s tear up the constitution and just go on a case by case basis.
10-20 Million *
If you like your Constitution, you can keep your Constitution. Period.
"Because we said so."
Constitution
Lets bury the constitution next to the Monroe Doctrine. Anybody old enough to remember that?
“Incidental”?! So does that mean it’s optional?
Honestly how can they think it’s “incidental” to the purpose of the law? It’s a key component of the law, to incentivize people to buy health insurance! Without it no one would have any incentive to buy it.
Although, I guess that loophole in the law that prevents the IRS from forcefully collecting it comes into play here. Well played Nancy, well played.
Of course now that that loophole has served it’s purpose look for it to be quietly closed. If not by actual legal means, by a mere stroke of the pen and a phone call.
Using the same pretzel logic, I ought to be able to argue that running over someone on my way to work is permissible because it wasn't intentional and was only incidental to exercising my greater right to earn a living.
SCROTUS can refuse the hear any case. They’ll probably punt on every Obamacare case that comes their way from now on..
Well, I think it is equally not against the constitution to over throw the government since words have no meaning now in this fluid environment. I believe the SC finding Ocare constitutional was due to the fact the funding was deemed a tax. Since all laws, per a previous law, had to be funded fully and since the funding was to be a tax, not a fee, then it seems to me the fact it was an intricate mechanism in this law and not some side car addition. Another thank you to Bush and his Roberts appointment for paving the way for the end of this country as we knew it.
Folks it is all over....why vote, why pay taxes, in fact, why do anything. We got invaders overrunning the border, our military on the depletion cycle, the lobbyists running the country and the serfs meerly spectating. Revere supposedly rode to say the British are Coming. Today he would be riding to say why bother, I see the future.
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