Sorry, the Supreme Court will have a say in that. And this time will get it right.
People tend to move once a state gets so unbearable in so many ways. States bringing the mandate back could easily be the last straw for lots of good people. They then move to a red state making it redder leaving an opening in the blue state for some illegal with fake papers making the blue state bluer.
At what point then, after we have separated ourselves by ideology, does the idea of a “United” States become impossible? With each new President we, as a people, become more divided. When a leftist Progressive President is in office; life feels unbearable as we watch the country decay on an almost daily basis as we did with obummer. I’m sure the far left who want to take us into communism suffer just as much when we have a good President.
I really don’t see how we can continue on this path with 35% of the population being completely miserable at any given time due to ideology and with 35% happy with the way things are going. The other 30% really don’t care or just go with the flow blissfully ignorant until it affects them directly in some way at which time it’s too late to care.
That would be a genius move. Unhealthy people who get their health care subsidized would move to those states. Healthy people, who don’t want Obamacare and don’t want to pay the penalty, would leave.
I really don’t car at all what the Democrat states do with penalties. If they really want to go to Economic Hell, that is fine with me. The sooner they go out of business the better.
Not good enough! Why 2019? It should have been made effective beginning this tax year, 2017.
Anyone know? Is President Trump going to order the IRS to not enforce this infernal, individual `mandate’ tax for this year and next year?
Massachusetts has had the penalty,for years with Romneycare.
I have no problem with this whatsoever.
My principal objection to Obamacare was that it was unconstitutional at the Federal level. If a state chooses to implement this (in the guise of Romneycare Redux or in the form of full socialist healthcare or whatever) that is the business of the residents of that state.
Likewise, if a state chooses to eliminate health insurance altogether and operate on a strictly cash-on-the-barrelhead basis, that is the business of the residents of that state as well.
And if people choose to not be part of the system that is in their state, they can elect different representatives to their state governments or just move someplace else that works better for them.
Let the Blue States revive the tax penalty. It will just reinforce the “Tax and Spend” reputation so appropriately associated with Democrats.
Ha-ha. Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, California? Gee, throw in Illinois and Rhode Island, and you’d have a nice list of all the states being fled by income earning citizens.
People are already fleeing. More, many more, will if they try a state level tax. Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee ... get ready for more refugees.
These overtaxed lib states passing burdening the denizens with yet another tax will be the final nail in their coffins. If you think the flight of the producer-class from these experiments in socialism has been bad so far, just wait till they pull this crap.
The headline is a bit alarmist. That scenario could only come to pass in states with legislatures elected by liberals, so....[shrug]