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