Posted on 07/11/2013 2:21:50 PM PDT by Perdogg
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected a Christian university's challenge to President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare overhaul, which the school said unconstitutionally imposes costly burdens on large employers and infringes religious liberty.
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“Section 1311(d)(4)(H) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act creates a religious exemption only for people who are covered by Internal Revenue Code section 1402(g)(1). That section, in turn, creates an exemption to paying Social Security taxes for certain narrowly-defined religious communities. The only religious communities that have ever won exemptions from paying Social Security Taxes under section 1402(g)(1) are the Old-Order Amish and the Mennonites”
does that mean that Old Order Amish and Mennonites cannot collect social security since they have never paid into it?
Yes, but it's actually the other way around: the whole point of the religious exemption is that the Old Order Amish and the Mennonites never claim Social Security, because their religion requires them to take care of any old people in their community. Because they never claim benefits, Congress allowed them not to pay in. But if any member of one of those faiths tried to collect, they couldn't, because they never paid in.
Thank you.
Ignore the judicial system. There are not enough jails for these petty tyrant lawyers with black robes to throw everyone in jail. Massive civil disobedience works, see Egypt.
It’s either the First or the 14th Amendments here: if religious objection isn’t a defense (as it should be!), then you can turn around and say that the Muslim opt-out is in violation of the 14th amendment’s equal protection clause.
Sure, it's the smart thing to do financially.
AND...it's in keeping with the spirit of the law.
Seems the affordable health care act was meant to force people into the hands of the government by design. The idea is to hasten the transition to a single payer system. If the movement toward unbounded socialism comes at the price of religious freedom, all the better in the mind of the committed leftist.
“Seems the affordable health care act was meant to force people into the hands of the government by design. The idea is to hasten the transition to a single payer system. If the movement toward unbounded socialism comes at the price of religious freedom, all the better in the mind of the committed leftist.”
Actually, I suspect it’s much more likely that people thus affected will vote conservative from now on.
Are muslim schools required to buy into obommacare?
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