Posted on 01/26/2017 11:21:45 AM PST by 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.
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It is almost shocking to me that he still carries the smirk, arrogance and condescension. Clearly he hasn't heard anything the American public has said since we learned he thinks we are stupid. He is still as adamant as ever in the rightness of the program and that we don't know what we are talking about. He is just infuriating.
I am so thankful for our new president!
How do you get them to loan you the money if you don’t have to pay any interest?If you are paying interest you aren’t under Sharia
The Old Testament doesn’t support interest (“usery”) either.For that reason, the Establishment in Europe needed some non-Christians around to do banking. Jews, ironically . . .
Tabo on collecting interest and yet having credit available is pretty much a square circle. But America is not a theocracy, notwithstanding that the framers of the Constitution concluded the document,
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth.I think that credit is not available, thus the economy is less dynamic, in Muslim countries. Must be a real culture shock not to be able to buy a house with a mortgage . . .
Absolutely! Tucker did a good job. Gruber is not an easy interview I don’t think because he is so assured he is right—and is arrogant and condescending.
Fantastic!
Thanks for the ping, Jim.
Thanks for the heads up.....
Trump is truly giving power back to the people
And they worried he wouldn’t be conservative
As I see it, Trump’s convictions are to follow the law, in accordance with the Constitution. Whereas, Obloviators convictions, such as they were, was to ignore any laws he didn’t like (DOMA, for openers) and the Constitution be damned.
[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.]
Absolutely. Thanks a lot, John Roberts, for being the final one to enable this monstrous beast. How many did you kill?
The issue is not the issue. The issue is the new revolution.
I was saying back in the campaign days, welcome to the revolution. I am beyond fed up with the liberals, the foreigners, the special interests, etc. wrecking the county. A lot of us have had a tough time surviving this liberal train-wreck. They wanted change. Well, we’re gonna change their change.
GREAT Pic, Diana...
And it’s PERFECT now.
You can almost hear the libtardnik heads exploding.
I want that tee shirt!
Thanks for the ping Boss!
Remember that it is not just President Trump and his team, but the house Republicans who are almost fully on his side.
At their working retreat right now, when they return to work on Monday, there is likely to be a flurry of activity the likes of which we have never seen. The house, especially, is going to be “working wonders and eating cucumbers” at a tremendous clip.
The confirmation hearing sideshow in the senate will be what all the pundits are watching, so they are going to miss most of fireworks.
As hectic as this week has been, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
“And they worried he wouldn’t be conservative.”
During the primaries, “they” pushed that argument beyond any sense of rationality, claiming the “other choice” had such a glorious conservative rating. I suspect that if ANY of the “other choices” were president right now, we’d already be complaining about the promises he’d broken so far. It would’ve been business as usual. Many of those FReepers who left because Trump wasn’t conservative enough still haven’t come back.
I’m still in a bit of a state of shock, and a bit overwhelmed, at how fast Trump is accomplishing all that he said he would. I’ve become so accustomed to our politicians being liars, that this still almost seems like a dream! God has shown mercy on us, even though our nation probably does not deserve such, especially after the past 8 years. I am soooo thankful! Go Trump!!!!!
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I don’t think any of those others could have beaten Hllary. They didn’t have the stamina or guts to campaign in the rust belt
Tuckers is doing a nice job on a lot of lefties!
They make loans out of the goodness of their Islamic Terrorist hearts!!
The irony in this one is that Linda would have been punished, possibly put to death for challenging the authority in Saudi Arabia.
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