51 can overturn much of Obama-care but not all of it under budget reconciliation. That is how Dems got the House to pass the original Senate Obam-ney-care bill, a second budget reconciliation modification bill that increased both the spending and taxes.
There are so many ironies to ‘this is a tax, not a tax’ argument. Calling it a tax to repeal most of it sides with the SCOTUS (and Roberts) on their decision. Alternatively Romney cant call it a tax because he already is on record saying the mandate in his MA Romney-care bill was not a tax the same as the Obama argument.
It was ruled constitutional by the SCOTUS as a tax and congress can clearly tax us.
Basically RomneyCare is coming back to bite him.
Well, Congress can clearly pass excises, duties, and imposts. They can pass direct taxes apportioned among the several States. And they can pass unapportioned direct taxes on incomes, however derived.
Which one is this?
The fact is that this is a penalty by legislative enactment. Which, by the way, is specifically forbidden to Congress by the Constitution.
If they wanted to repeal it they would..politicians don’t want to repeal it. they want more money to the feds til we are a communist nation.
All I know is when I’ve been penalized the check I have to write goes to the MA DOR - Department of Revenue, the IRS of the state.
51 votes won’t repair the damage to the Constitution..
It’s up to Romney to nominate conservative judges.
I have little faith that Romney will do it. I KNOW Obama won’t.