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To: superloser
You wrote:

Now the fun part -- since Obamacare is now a tax, it can be challenged AGAIN in two years.

But you are wrong because Roberts specifically wrote that it cannot be challenged as a tax. Now see his genius, now its a tax and now it isn't.

164 posted on 06/30/2012 12:54:15 AM PDT by quimby
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To: quimby
But you are wrong because Roberts specifically wrote that it cannot be challenged as a tax.

Yes it can, because of the HHS waiver system. You attack it through the fact that HHS can issue waivers.

Also, what has been lost here is that Roberts ruled that ANY regulatory mandate that regulates "inactivity" is Unconstitutional.

That is huge. That is gigantic. That is worth the price of admission. Think about how much of the Federal Government can be challenged simply because Roberts ruled that you can't "regulate inactivity" under the Commerce Clause.

Keep your eye on the long game. The short term will suffer some setbacks, but this is HUGE in terms of impact on Government's ability to issue regulatory demands.

The first time the Government issues a regulation to just go out and do something you aren't already doing, it can now be challenged using this precedent.

165 posted on 06/30/2012 1:00:09 AM PDT by superloser
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