Posted on 07/05/2012 7:57:16 AM PDT by Perdogg
Question for legal tweeps: Obama campaign is now denying that administration SG ever argued that Obamacare mandate is a tax.
Looking at oral arguments, SG Verrilli said mandate is 'justifiable under its tax power.' Can't find him saying 'It is a tax'
So therefore: Is Obama hiding behind legal hairsplitting, arguing mandate is constitutional under tax power but is not actually a tax?
He was lying. How can you tell? His lips were moving.
Apart from that, saying it was permissable under the taxing authority is an argument that it is a tax.
I saw that! What a piece of sh** that guy was. In the end he just pushes by the “tax” line and says how great it will be. And Meygan slammed him and went right back to the sleaziness of the Obama administration.
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