Chief Justice Roberts affirms: ObamaCare was poorly written

Fox News.com ^ | June 25, 2015

[Kaslin]

While Chief Justice John Roberts delivered a blow to ObamaCare foes with a majority opinion upholding subsidies, he backed up the law's opponents on one point: The language in the Affordable Care Act was kind of a mess.

"The Affordable Care Act contains more than a few examples of inartful drafting," he wrote.

[knarf]

The money quote

"Look how quickly the pace is picking up."

[BuckeyeTexan]

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[novemberslady]

bobby roberts...the chief bender over of them all...

[i_robot73]

I guess they missed the precedent of ‘void for vagueness’ as well.

It was probably in the same English class, that they missed, where they diagrammed the 2nd Amendment sentence structure and defined “shall not” and “infringed”.

[Talisker]

I didn’t forget anything, first they said it was NOT a tax, then Roberts said it WAS a tax to try to justify it. It is a total abomination against the constitution. To say that it is in any way justifiable means that the government can require you to do anything whatsoever from washing your arse twice a day to buying two chickens a week and penalize you for NOT doing so and call the penalty a tax, failure to pay taxes is punishable by fines AND OR IMPRISONMENT. I don’t understand why some people don’t seem to grasp the ramifications of this travesty.

One of the MOST absurd liberal attempts at justification is that this is nothing new since you were already required by law to buy insurance on your car. Anyone who believes the two are in any way comparable needs to go back to first grade. Amazingly those who have fallen for this all seem to think THEY are the smartest people in any room. Few of them seem to have any grasp of history, if they did they might realize that the founders of this alliance called the USA probably did not spend day after day in a hot, humid building without benefit of modern conveniences like running water and air conditioning, haggling over the meaning of words and the outcome of using them just so they could toss in a couple of phrases which amount to, “Okay, now that we have settled all that, just disregard all of it and pass any damned fool law that you want to pass.”

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Actually, what Roberts said was that if the income tax doesn't apply to you, then neither does Obamacare. And he even gave ways to check to see if the tax law itself says it applies to you. But no one wants to hear that.

So they don't.

[BlessingsofLiberty]

Well, it was nice of Roberts to fix the law so Obamacare could survive.

Hey Roberts, you are a joke...carry on.

[RipSawyer]

Sorry, I’m lost, I don’t have a clue what you mean.

[Paladin2]

Roberts proves he has Zer0 reading comprehension. All of his diplomas need to be revoked.