Pay no attention to those pants on fire behind the podium.
Posted on 07/20/2010 11:26:46 AM PDT by Andrea19
As the states and citizens question the constitutionality of the “individual mandate” to purchase healthcare in the legislation for Obamacare, the administration and its legal team have radically changed their tune recently on how they justify the mandate. Originally, Obama claimed that it fell under the power of Congress to regulate commerce, but as that argument has fallen flat, his Department of Justice lawyers have argued differently in filings in the case brought by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Now, they claim that the mandate’s power stems from Congress’s power to tax, apparently extending to the power to tax inactivity.
Yet while Obama is willing to call the mandate a tax to ramrod it through the courts, he has done a complete about-face since the campaign trail...
Read more: http://www.atr.org/obamas-lawyers-argue-broke-his-pledge-a5227#ixzz0uFQlBAqJ
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Obama needs to be impeached and tried for treason.
Pay no attention to those pants on fire behind the podium.
There is no way that forcing someone to purchase a product from a private entity is a tax. Period.
Isn’t that what got the Brits booted out on their asses?
Among other things. Yes.
“Among other things. Yes.”
And the other things are about to happen, aren’t they?
We’ll see if the new PM is actually Conservative enough to tell the president that. (I doubt it.)
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