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Obama solicitor general: If you don't like mandate, earn less money
Washington Examiner ^ | 6/2/11 | Philip Klein

Posted on 06/02/2011 11:01:29 AM PDT by Nachum

President Obama's solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn't like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money. Neal Kumar Katyal, the acting solicitor general, made the argument under questioning before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati. The three-judge panel, which was comprised of two Republican-appointed judges and a Democratic-appointed judge, expressed more skepticism about the government's defense of the health care law than the Fourth Circuit panel that heard the Virginia-based Obamacare challenge last

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Did the judge then smack him with a wet fish?
1 posted on 06/02/2011 11:01:33 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


2 posted on 06/02/2011 11:02:08 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

I hate this regime.


3 posted on 06/02/2011 11:04:30 AM PDT by max americana (.)
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To: Nachum

I f you want to9 “Earn Less Money(or None,For That Matter)”,you know who to vote for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


4 posted on 06/02/2011 11:04:36 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: Nachum

“Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.”

The goal...exposed...

Americans must be punished for clinging to their god, guns, religion...and freedom....


5 posted on 06/02/2011 11:06:05 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '12)
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To: Nachum

“Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.”

Liberalism, it seems, never misses an opportunity to institutionalize a perverse incentive.


6 posted on 06/02/2011 11:06:33 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Nachum
"If you don't like (the 0bamaCare) mandate, earn less money"

0bamanomics in action! Destruction on an epic scale. National bankruptcy is the PLAN!

7 posted on 06/02/2011 11:07:03 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (0bamaÂ’s PLAN is national bankruptcy. Our plan is to save Medicare and Social Security with reforms.)
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the zer0bama Regime crafting of 3rd world Amerika continues unabated
8 posted on 06/02/2011 11:07:18 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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He says “Go Galt!”


9 posted on 06/02/2011 11:07:44 AM PDT by HEM
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Hey! Same with higher taxes!
Make less, pay less!
It’s going to become the “new” American tradition!

Galt-nation


10 posted on 06/02/2011 11:08:07 AM PDT by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: Nachum

...or we could eat cake.


11 posted on 06/02/2011 11:08:53 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Crim

Thanks to the Summer of Recovery, some of us don’t even have to be burdened with making the choice of earning less!


12 posted on 06/02/2011 11:08:53 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: Nachum

Kumar needs a trip to Gitmo...............


13 posted on 06/02/2011 11:09:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: Nachum

Go ahead and shrug. We double dog dare you.

14 posted on 06/02/2011 11:10:40 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! Tea Party extremism is a badge of honor.)
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To: HEM
"He says “Go Galt!”"

I am rapidly approaching the ability to do just that.

Looking forward to it, actually...

15 posted on 06/02/2011 11:10:40 AM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: Nachum

And more than half the people in this country don’t believe obama’s main goal is to destroy this country.


16 posted on 06/02/2011 11:11:48 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Only a SECOND party will get my vote.)
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Did the judge then smack him with a wet fish?

A liberal activist Democrat judge - - like the ones on the New Jersey Supreme Court - - would have nodded in understanding and approval.

17 posted on 06/02/2011 11:11:50 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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Sounds like an ad for Atlas Shrugged. Go Galt. Drop out. Yet few people went to see the movie. It was smothered by leftist propaganda.
18 posted on 06/02/2011 11:12:14 AM PDT by Truth29
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Did the judge then smack him with a wet fish?

A crowbar would have been better.

19 posted on 06/02/2011 11:12:23 AM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Funemployment!!!


20 posted on 06/02/2011 11:12:47 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '12)
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