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To: jonno
"I'm sure your time is valuable, but how 'bout pointing out just one hole for us...

Sure, no problem, where in the Constitution is the authority to tax someone for not engaging in a commercial transaction? To Wit, buying health insurance? This is a tax on inactivity. The Constitution authorizes 4 types of taxes. Income, Tariff, Excise and one other. It does not authorize a tax on people not buying stuff. This is a huge blow to the Constitution and the Republic, Robert should be very ashamed of himself.

57 posted on 07/07/2012 9:30:43 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: jpsb

This could be a harbinger of a two-trip wonder. (Two trips before the USSC, like campaign finance reform had to make.)

The first trip called it a tax but did not treat the question of whether it was a constitutional tax.

The second trip will treat said question.


60 posted on 07/07/2012 9:33:41 AM PDT by raccoonnookkeeper (I keep raccoons in a nook!)
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