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President Obama signaled in our interview that he was prepared to address some of the concerns raised by key Senator Jay Rockefeller, who called the Baucus bill a “big middle class tax increase” this week. That means he’ll support more subsidies for middle class families. But in our most spirited exchange, the President refused to accept the argument that a mandate to buy health insurance is equivalent to a tax. Here it is: STEPHANOPOULOS: You were against the individual mandate… OBAMA: Yes. STEPHANOPOULOS: …during the campaign. Under this mandate, the government is forcing people to spend money, fining you if...

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Philippine police investigation under way. A 65-year-old Danish pensioner has been found dead in the Philippines in what appears to have been a murder. According to Svend-Erik Hansen’s daughter, who has sent an e-mail to bt.dk, her father was killed in his holiday house which had been cleared of valuables.“He was killed in his own holiday house after which anything of value in the house was taken,” she writes. The Philippines police have confirmed the man was found dead, but have not been willing to say what the cause of death was. “It does not look like an accident, but...

<p>WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. upheld the heart of President Obama's healthcare law Thursday, ruling that the government may impose tax penalties on those who do not have health insurance. The decision came on a 5-4 vote, with the court's four liberal justices joining with the chief justice.</p>

Do not think that Benedict Arnold Roberts, the unethical Kagan and their liberal activist cohorts have done the Democrats a favor. The ruling concerning Medicaid expansion, likely will have the effect of blowing the whole thing out of the water. The cost of Obamacare will skyrocket if States opt out of the Medicaid expansion, which at least 26 are likely to do. Without the Medicaid expansion, individuals under 133% of poverty not eligible for traditional Medicaid would now qualify – and need – the full subsidy under Obamacare exchanges. This means that the law is not paid for. In fact,...

The Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama’s signature health care law Thursday, handing him a monumental legal victory, enshrining the centerpiece of his agenda and ensuring that the pitched political battle over the nation’s health care laws will continue through the November election. In the court’s most consequential decision since it awarded the presidency to George W. Bush in 2000, Chief Justice John Roberts, a Bush appointee, joined with the court’s liberal wing to validate the entire law, including its controversial “individual mandate.” In siding for the first time with liberals on a 5-4 decision, Roberts intertwined the legacy of...

Remember this video? Obama telling us all that ObamaCare is NOT a tax. But according to the deciding vote in the Supreme Court decision today, it IS a tax and the act is upheld. Chief Justice Roberts opinion is that the mandate violates the Commerce Clause but since he believes it is a tax, and that it was within Congresses power to tax, the violation of the Commerce Clause doesn't matter. Welcome to Canada folks, and the ever increasing tax rates. From the dissent: If Congress can reach out and command even those furthest removed from an interstate market to...

My first ever posting of a vanity... (or anything else) July the 4th will be suspended for me, as the nation it represented has been suspended. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. etc....

The Supreme Court has allowed Obamacare's individual mandate as a TAX President Obama LIED to America when he told us that Obamacare was not a tax in any way. He then turned around and argued to the United States Supreme Court that the individual mandate and penalty for not getting healthcare was a tax and therefore constitutional. ObamaTAX via Obamacare ...... this might be JUST the right Slap in the face that America Needs to wake up and VOTE OUT OBAMA    WAKE UP AMERICA! We are not only DROWNING in Debt, but not we have seen Obama impose...

(Editor's note: This op-ed was originally published on September 29, 1993.) The president has announced his health care plan, and congressional Republicans have announced theirs. Although the details are still murky, the plans seem to share one fundamental assumption -- that every man, woman and child in the U.S. must participate in the system. The healthy must subsidize the sick; the young must subsidize the old; the not so old must subsidize the very young. If this redistribution of wealth is to work without new taxes (and no one wants to admit that new taxes might be necessary), then everyone...

To hell with the Supreme Court. I’m a free American. I will NOT be a ward of the State. Throw all the bums out, before it’s too late.

This is no longer America. You no longer have the opportunity for the American Dream. You, we, me -- we're all slaves now. The Supreme Court of the United States of America has just made it official. Congress has abandoned you. The executive branch has abandoned you. SCOTUS has abandoned you. The lapdog media has abandoned you.

A nation in distress. A Republican leader states, "you have awoken a sleeping giant !"

From $94 billion to $1.6 trillion... President Obama has repeatedly asserted that the new health care law's individual mandate requiring everyone to have qualified health insurance coverage or pay a penalty is not a tax.  In a testy exchange with ABC's George Stephanopoulos--who, ironically, also pushed for sweeping health care reform legislation when he worked for then-President Bill Clinton--Stephanopoulos pointed out that ObamaCare critics call the mandate a tax. Obama rejected the claim and noted that his critics call everything a tax: "For us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not...

"So once again we see which side Obama comes down on... and the question of whether there is a country of the rule of law or the rule of man. With Obama, it is not the rule of law." "He is implementing law that the Congress defeated. " "If he doesn't agree with the Federal law, he isn't going to enforce it... like the Defense of Marriage Act. It is the law of the land but the regime announced within the past year that they were no longer going to enforce it. It is a dictator's wet dream to do...

The Supreme Court upheld Obamacare. A close read of the actual language reveals that the individual "mandate" applies to any "applicable individual" which is defined as anyone other than...(a) certain religious exemptions, (b) people in jail (they already get free healthcare), or (c) read carefully.... "(3) INDIVIDUALS NOT LAWFULLY PRESENT. Such term shall not include an individual for any month if for the month the individual is not a citizen or national of the United States or an alien lawfully present in the United States." SEE: 26 USC 5000A(d)(3) Meanwhile, Obama just ruled by executive edict that immigration laws would...

Roberts believes ObamaCare is constitutional because there is a penalty, ooops I mean tax associated with the mandate. John Marshall's decision in McCullough vs. Maryland stated: the power to tax is the power to destroyI will concede Marshall was talking about the unconstitutionality of Maryland's tax to destroy the Federally created Bank of the US. In this case, Roberts is totally fine with the gov't taxing its way to destroy our Liberty.

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We have a small production office and after today's decision by those putrid traitors on the SC. We will fire our obama-worshiping employee. Hey, it's not my fault. WE CAN'T AFFORD HIM now after the decision. I hope for the worst on those scums on the SC and this POS p-resident.