Posted on 10/03/2013 8:16:58 PM PDT by Kevmo
The Supreme Court declared that Obamacare was a tax. But taxes are, by law, supposed to originate in the house of representatives. Why doesn't the house GOP just say that they intend to follow the law as it has been backed by the SCOTUS?
They say they are simply funding the entire legal government as it stands. And since the SCOTUS has said that Obamacare is a tax, it needs to originate in the House and they originate it. See if it passes. Otherwise, according to the SCOTUS and current law, it is not a valid tax.
Don’t tell me it’s “settled law”.
We had “Settled Law” to build a fence on the southern border, with funding, but a subsequent Democratic Congress defunded and repealed it. Why didn’t the Democrats just go along with building the fence?
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