Are you assuming that spending will not increase to swallow up any gains in revenue?
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Sequestration & house republicans are holding the line on new spending
There is a growing sense that Obamacare doesn’t have a future. imho the Supreme Court will knock down obamacare later in the year.
Really? on what grounds? This would be wonderful news, but I’m sceptical.
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Agree that this one is speculative. I think the supreme court will knock it down later in the year because they fast tracked a new challenge to obamacare so that it would arrive at the supreme court this fall. The supremes actively pushed this obamacare challenge. Why would they do this? There are several reasons. But the most obvious one is that they declared Obamacare’s chief funding provision to be a tax. By doing this they made it possible to rule the entire piece of legislation to be unconstitutional because the legislation had its origins in the senate. All tax legislation has to originate in the house. Therefor the law is unconstitutional on technical grounds.
Anyhow, that’s my WAG (wild ass guess). As I mentioned the Obamacare biz is purely speculative.