Posted on 02/14/2011 6:55:34 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
In case anybody still here is genuinely intersted, this article refers to the IRS reversing their decision to declassify breast pumps and related supplies as allowable expenses for healthcare savings accounts.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled hyperbole....
Moochelle and the Fuhrer have been suckling off the US taxpayers since January 09. in 2012, they will be weaned courtesy of We The People.
If the feds can regulate a farmer who grows wheat to use on his own farm because it affects interstate commerce, then they could also tax a woman who uses breast milk to feed her babies, because it impacts the interstate trade in dairy products.
I think the court needs to revisit Wickard v. Filburn.
Cheaper than WIC? Maybe. That is a good reason. They have to cut somewhere.
Under the “Sauce For The Goose Is Sauce For The Gander” legal theory, the following arguments are unavoidable:
1. In light of the new “Equality of the Sexes” legislation, if any female is allowed time off for breast feeding, males must also be given time off.
Mere possession of functional breasts can no longer be used as a legal basis for discrimination!
2. Any tax breaks allowed to women must also be offered to men. Anything less is discrimination against those with Y Chromosomes!
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