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Trump has committed the most revolutionary act I've seen in 45 years
Fox News ^ | January 26, 2017 | Judge Napolitano

Posted on 01/26/2017 11:21:45 AM PST by maddog55

Within four hours of becoming president of the United States, Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to limit immediately the effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) in ways that are revolutionary.

With the stroke of a pen, the president assaulted the heart of the law that was the domestic centerpiece of his predecessor’s administration. How did this happen? How can a U.S. president, who took an oath to enforce the laws faithfully, gut one of them merely because he disagrees with it?

Here is the back story.

When ObamaCare went through Congress in 2010, all Democrats in Congress supported it and all congressional Republicans were opposed. The crux of their disagreement was the law’s command that everyone in the United States obtain and maintain health insurance -- a command that has come to be known as “the individual mandate.”

Republicans argued that Congress was without the authority to compel people to enter the marketplace by purchasing a product -- that such decisions should be freely made by individuals and that that freedom was protected from governmental interference by the Constitution. Democrats argued that the commerce clause of the Constitution, which permits Congress to regulate commerce among the states, also permits it to compel commercial activity on the part of individuals who make up a highly regulated component of interstate commerce.

To ensure compliance with the individual mandate, the law provided that the IRS would collect the fair market value of a bare-bones insurance policy from those who did not obtain and maintain one. The government would then take that money and purchase a health insurance policy for that individual who rejected the law’s command.

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PING!


81 posted on 01/26/2017 2:47:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hey, New Delhi! What the hell were you thinking???)
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To: maddog55
The crux of their disagreement was the law’s command that everyone in the United States obtain and maintain health insurance -- a command that has come to be known as “the individual mandate.”

Which is unconstitutional, no matter what any court claims.

82 posted on 01/26/2017 2:56:58 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: maddog55

We need to slash the IRS’s budget. Then they won’t have the resources to enforce the mandate or to harass Tea Party groups.


83 posted on 01/26/2017 2:58:15 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: grundle

Feminism.


84 posted on 01/26/2017 2:59:00 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

We need to eliminate the IRS entirely, along with its enabling amendment.


85 posted on 01/26/2017 3:03:23 PM PST by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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To: maddog55

In a few interviews with our local 550am radio host here in Cincy, the Judge has said a few things I disagree with and at times, seems like a never Trumper...he gets squishy on conservatism sometimes.


86 posted on 01/26/2017 3:33:28 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Drain the swamp. Build the wall. Open the Pizzagate. I refuse to inhabit any safe space.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“The government would then take that money and purchase a health insurance policy for that individual who rejected the law’s command.”

Right, that was from some alternate reality as I have never heard or seen such a thing to have occurred.


87 posted on 01/26/2017 3:38:48 PM PST by Crucial
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To: SandRat

Maybe Trump has studied the Nixon history and won’t repeat those same foolish mistakes made by such an otherwise intelligent man.


88 posted on 01/26/2017 3:40:12 PM PST by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

They capitalize the interest by buying the property, adding a markup and on-selling it to the borrower with an installment plan.

The markup just happens to be based on the duration of the loan, the reliability of the borrower, the type of asset, etc, but they do some word play to pretend that it’s not interest but a market price based on the different market value of money received now versus in 10 years (i.e. interest). Typical time-wasting scheme to evade backwards religious restrictions.


89 posted on 01/26/2017 3:43:18 PM PST by fluorescence
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To: dfwgator
What is missing on his beret is the Snake of the Gadsden Flag, that would complete the ensemble!
90 posted on 01/26/2017 3:59:36 PM PST by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
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To: Gen-X-Dad

Hahaha, right?

They thought they were gonna get some low energy Jeb Bush candidate that would take the high road and work with them at worst.

At best they thought that they would get Clinton and weaponize government even further.

Then Donald John Trump comes along with a wrecking ball with the keys to all those nice shiny weapons that Obama set the precedent by using.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. I’d be pissed too.


91 posted on 01/26/2017 4:07:11 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: maddog55
Bravo, Mr. President!

Our founding principles, if they mean anything, came into being so that the God-given rights of individual citizens would be protected. Individual freedom is the single most important building block upon which our nation stands. We must not, we can't ever, lose sight of this.

92 posted on 01/26/2017 4:26:36 PM PST by floozy22 (Edward Snowden - American Hero)
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To: ichabod1

How do you get them to loan you the money if you don’t have to pay any interest?


Give them your pizza - I mean children - as collateral.


93 posted on 01/26/2017 4:59:10 PM PST by bIlluminati (Balance the budget. Defund the Left!)
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To: maddog55

“To ensure compliance with the individual mandate, the law provided that the IRS would collect the fair market value of a bare-bones insurance policy from those who did not obtain and maintain one.”

Concerning repealing the nontax tax:
1. If Uncle Sam could purchase a bare-bones policy for anyone at, what was the penalty - $1500/yr?, then why has everyone been paying $1500 every two or three months to insurance companies for the same bare-bones policy?

2. What about those unemployed who were forced onto their state medical program under ‘income guidelines’ and then informed they would be personally liable for costs to the state (leins on estates)? Does that go away, also, and why aren’t those costs disclosed?

I can’t wait for Trump to dig deeper into Zerocare - or for the Attny General to dig deeper into what the states did with the ‘federal reimbursement’ money.


94 posted on 01/26/2017 5:16:14 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you." President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: maddog55; ExTexasRedhead


95 posted on 01/26/2017 5:17:57 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: FreedomStar3028
Just to remember what we finally are free of.....


96 posted on 01/26/2017 5:22:57 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Jim Robinson

Amen Jim.

Amen


97 posted on 01/26/2017 5:48:37 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: dfwgator

THAT is hilariously brilliant!


98 posted on 01/26/2017 6:30:10 PM PST by georgiegirl (Count me in the half that's in the Deplorable Basket)
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To: thoughtomator

I agree with that. In the meantime, while that is being done, cripple it via the budget.


99 posted on 01/26/2017 7:20:18 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Gen-X-Dad
Previous admins FFA meeting. No not that FFA, future felons of america.


100 posted on 01/26/2017 8:14:32 PM PST by rawcatslyentist
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