Posted on 06/29/2012 4:03:54 PM PDT by BornToBeAmerican
By placing the ACA under the umbrella of the tax power, Roberts may have made the ACA easier to overturn by several orders of magnitude. The ordinary process, of course, requires 60 votes to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. But when it concerns budgetary matters, including taxes (like the Bush tax cuts), 51 votes are sufficient to put the law on hold for 10 years. So, theoretically, 51 Republicans will be capable now of overturning the ACA at least for ten years (at which point it could be reviewed again). Fifty-one Republicans could have attempted this in any case, but now they can do so with much greater plausibility because this is a matter of taxing and spending and not regulation of commerce.
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#1 silver lining is this makes the country insolvent....the rest is all gop-e hoooye spindoctoring. ooo you got to elect republicans to senate, and romney is sure to repeal it and replace it.
This is not going to be overturned. The left would come unglued and burn the f***ing country to the ground. It would be like Wisconsin X 57. SO, if it must stand, everyone from barry on down should have to have this same plan including all the federal, state and all union a-holes. If it good enough for me it should be good enough for everyone. Let hairy bring that to the floor and see if it fly’s.
I bet not!
whats the downside? the country is too big to centrally plan its going to fail one way or the other
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