Trump has committed the most revolutionary act I've seen in 45 years

Fox News ^ | January 26, 2017 | Judge Napolitano

[maddog55]

Within four hours of becoming president of the United States, Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to limit immediately the effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) in ways that are revolutionary.

With the stroke of a pen, the president assaulted the heart of the law that was the domestic centerpiece of his predecessor’s administration. How did this happen? How can a U.S. president, who took an oath to enforce the laws faithfully, gut one of them merely because he disagrees with it?

Here is the back story.

When ObamaCare went through Congress in 2010, all Democrats in Congress supported it and all congressional Republicans were opposed. The crux of their disagreement was the law’s command that everyone in the United States obtain and maintain health insurance -- a command that has come to be known as “the individual mandate.”

Republicans argued that Congress was without the authority to compel people to enter the marketplace by purchasing a product -- that such decisions should be freely made by individuals and that that freedom was protected from governmental interference by the Constitution. Democrats argued that the commerce clause of the Constitution, which permits Congress to regulate commerce among the states, also permits it to compel commercial activity on the part of individuals who make up a highly regulated component of interstate commerce.

To ensure compliance with the individual mandate, the law provided that the IRS would collect the fair market value of a bare-bones insurance policy from those who did not obtain and maintain one. The government would then take that money and purchase a health insurance policy for that individual who rejected the law’s command.

[maddog55]

Well written...

[Buckeye McFrog]

The government would then take that money and purchase a health insurance policy for that individual who rejected the law’s command.

Yeah.....like THAT was ever going to happen!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed]

Viva la revolucion.

[gattaca]

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[oh8eleven]

Trump’s revolutionary act ... recognizes something modern governments never admit -- that they can be and have been wrong.
And this is just the beginning. Best. Election. Ever.

[mewzilla]

My Green Mountain Boys ancestors are smiling....

[grundle]

[jazminerose]

Absolutely fascinating piece. If Trump does nothing else in the next four years, that one clause alone completely justifies his reelection.

I am floored. I may cry. Somewhere our Founding Fathers are at peace, finally.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Thank you for illustrating exactly WHY idiot Millenials will one day vote in Sharia Law.

[jazminerose]

Because nothing says equal rights for women quite like Sharia.

[Gen-X-Dad]

[SandRat]

Since Pres Nixon?

[dfwgator]

Viva la revolucion.

[dmd25]

I just read this article on Fox. The Trump revolution! :)

I don't know if everyone saw this or not, but thought some might appreciate watching Tucker Carlson take apart Jonathan Gruber (Remember him: "The renowned architect of the Act admitted “this bill was written in a tortured way” to create a “lack of transparency,” an effort that succeeded thanks to the “the stupidity of the American voter.”)

Gruber makes my blood boil. He still thinks we are stupid.

Tucker takes on ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber

[Elvina]

It’s just outrageous to force someone to buy a product under IRS penalty. The fact this law stood for any length of time is ridiculous.

[ichabod1]

How do you get them to loan you the money if you don’t have to pay any interest?

[Jim Robinson]

"Then he ordered a truly revolutionary act, the likes of which I have never seen in the 45 years I have studied and monitored the government’s laws and its administration of them. He ordered that when bureaucrats who are administering and enforcing the law have discretion with respect to the time, place, manner and severity of its enforcement, they should exercise that discretion in favor of individuals and against the government.

This is radical coming from any president in the modern era of government-can-do-no-wrong. It is far more Thomas Jefferson, the small-government champion with whom Trump has never been associated, than it is Theodore Roosevelt, the super-regulator whom Trump has stated he admires. It recognizes the primacy and dignity of the individual and the fallibility of the state. It acknowledges the likely demise of ObamaCare. It is utterly without precedent since Jefferson’s presidency.

Trump’s revolutionary act is a breeze of freedom on a sea of regulation. It recognizes something modern governments never admit -- that they can be and have been wrong. It is exactly as Trump promised."

A big rebirth of freedom bump!! Go, Trump!! MAGA!!

[wtd]

Anyone can purchase or go online and review the entirety of shariah law in "Reliance of the Traveler", the manual of Islamic jurisprudence certified as “reliable” by Egypt’s very own Al-Azhar University here (pdf)

[Claud]

LOLOL

I am laughing like crazy today. One thing after another. :)