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To: Persevero
The individual mandate was never eliminated. Instead, they just reduced the penalty to $0. Nothing stops Congress from raising it again in the future.

That was the only way they could deal with the mandate without 60 votes in the Senate.

14 posted on 02/19/2018 11:15:43 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: Alberta's Child
That was the only way they could deal with the mandate without 60 votes in the Senate.

Or with 51 votes they could just nuke the Senate cloture rule, then repeal Obamacare, followed by confirming every single Trump appointee with no further debate.

16 posted on 02/19/2018 11:28:34 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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