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To: yellowhammer
Someone help me here. Does this mean that another challenge can be made to Obamacare that the mandate tax is unconstitutional?

Not as I read it. Chief Justice Roberts' decision not only held that the mandate is a tax, it held it is a valid tax; the opinion discussed, and rejected, the argument that it is a direct tax which has to be apportioned and the argument that it is an unconstitutional penalty.

16 posted on 06/30/2012 4:26:47 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian
I'm hoping Mark Levin will have something good to report on Monday after he has a chance to thoroughly look over the ruling this weekend.
19 posted on 06/30/2012 4:46:16 PM PDT by yellowhammer
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Yes, but it wasn’t appealed to as a tax and so the issue of the 5th amendment was never raised.


20 posted on 06/30/2012 4:54:40 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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