Should hasten the trip to SCOTUS
The fix is always in with these guys...
Oh wow, what a surprise.
He’s one of obongo’s people appointed by clintoon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Gregory
Law is only “ambiguous” when the Left wants it to be. They can read ANYTHING into a law, even the Constitution, when the plain language goes against their agenda.
These 5 million people reside in predominantly conservative states. The Republicans will be blamed for the resulting fiasco if the subsidies are struck down.
This could dwarf everything else in the news and provide the Democrats cover for the November elections.
Not only will the LOSERS and SLACKERS not be able to get their subsidies, they will have to PAY BACK the handouts they have gotten so far! That will be SWEET!
Anyone who won’t pat back the subsidies in 90 days should go to jail for grand theft.
Specious reasoning. If the language didn't specify, then the BUREAUCRACY gets to write the law????? Absurd.
Someone show him Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution.
ALL legislative power is given to Congress. ALL. PERIOD. FULL STOP. END OF STORY.
And since the location of e-mail correspondence from Lois Lerner & other officials related to the recent investigation is unclear, we should defer to the assertion of the Internal Revenue Service that nothing incriminating exists ....
$7,200 each.
LOL
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
It's amazing that lawsuits being filed against Obamacare Democratcare are targeting technicalities, as opposed to addressing major constitutional problems with it. I suspect that the DC establishment and the corrupt media don't want low-information voters to find out about Congress's constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, powers which don't include healthcare.
More specifically, what activist justices undoubtedly don't want voters to find out about Democratcare is the following. Before Constitution-ignoring socialist FDR nuked the Supreme Court with activist justices in the 1930s and 40s, previous generations of Constitution-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate healthcare purposes.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. oo., 1837.
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphasis added] beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.
And for those misguided Democrats and RINOs who argue that if the Constitution doesn’t say that the feds can’t do something then they can do it, the Supreme Court has address that foolish idea too. Powers not expressly delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, are prohibited to the feds.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
As a side note concerning the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, please consider the following. The states would sure be a dull, boring place to grow up and live in if parents were to make sure that their children were taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood. /sarc
Thomas Jefferson had put it this way:
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
In fact, forget about traditional salesman / sucker cliches like "buying the Brooklyn Bridge." Voters now have to deal with the problem that they have foolishly traded their votes for constitutionally nonexistent rights and federal spending programs based on constitutionally nonexistant federal government powers.
If congress “clearly intended” to provide subsidies to anyone anywhere they should have said that and not said “in the state exchanges”
“Clearly”, my azz.