Greta comments...
Judge said that this is NOT economic activity.
Forcing someone to buy something is NOT economic activity.
Judge has declared 1501 unconstitutional...
*****Applies only to VA****
Greta says DOJ will fight it by calling it a tax...
Legislators didn’t want to call it a tax for political reasons...
But DOJ lawyers call it a tax in defending it...
REPEAT: REQUIRING SOMEONE TO BUY SOMETHING IS NOT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND THEREFORE THE FED GOV HAS NO AUTHORITY IN THE MANDATE....
*****Applies only to VA****
yes, but other states are already following suit and more will come if it becomes a trend.
I believe that there was no severability clause.
If any part of the 2000 pages of Obamacare is declared unconstitutional, the whole shebang is void.
Without 1501, the funding mechanism is gutted. GOP can now lay seige warfare to strangle the rest....and that’s not counting what the 4th and SCOTUS will do to this bill.
The first blow, hopefully more to come.
Now if we can kill this damn dream act!!!
It is a good start!
BTW, that argument that "wull, this heyah's same's automobile insurance" is full of holes. First off NO STATE requires everybody to get automobile insurance. In fact, SOME STATES don't require anybody to get it. The judge was quite obviously persuaded that levying a poll tax on everybody just so they could get medical care was UN CONSTITUTIONAL!
Judge has declared 1501 unconstitutional...
*****Applies only to VA****
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I don’t see how a Federal judge can say that the Constitution only applies to one state.
I live in Virginia :-)
But my company already changed my health plan to avoid the cadilac tax :-(
Why should Virginia be exempt, and the rest of not?
The Obama care is a pile of Dung.
Not true. Fourth Circuit covers Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
“*****Applies only to VA****”
However, there are about 20 other states that are united with the VA case, and as others have said, next stop the SCOTUS.