“General Verrilli, today you are arguing that the penalty is not a tax. Tomorrow you are going to be back and you will be arguing that the penalty is a tax,” said Justice Samuel Alito, in one of the few laugh lines throughout the 90 minutes of argument Monday.
Who supplied the rim shot?
17 posted on 03/26/2012 12:20:04 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies
(A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
45 posted on 03/26/2012 1:35:17 PM PDT by JediJones
(The Divided States of Obama's Declaration of Dependence: Death, Taxes and the Pursuit of Crappiness)
As Christine O’Donnell said, the bill itself should have to state whether it is a tax or not, as well as contain the reasoning why it is constitutional. The DOJ should be allowed to use no other arguments.
