[txrefugee]

And the SCOTUS ruling in which Roberts rescued this unconstitutional legislation by calling it a tax also included a ruling that the federal government could not retaliate against uncooperative states by reducing Medicare payments to those states.

Shame on Scott and Kasich for caving when there was no need to capitulate to this naked power grab by the federal government.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Of course, most of us only neede .01% of our brain to prove it wouldn’t work....

[drypowder]

instead of parcing the disfunctionality of obozo care people need to start calling it what it is and being truthfull about what it was designed to do. It has been all along abundently clear that it was designed as another means for government control over the people and is now abunantly clear it was also designed as a huge tax increase scam. This government is not a government for the people, it is a government against the people. How much more clearer can that get??

[lowbridge]

bump

[supercat]

When the out-year spending cuts and tax hikes are due to take effect, Washington rescinds them, and the cycle begins again.

Perhaps Republicans need to offer up a ten-yet budget in which all budget items are cut 100% after the end of the present fiscal year. Such a budget would have a huge 10-year surplus--far better than anything Democrats would or could propose. If the Democrats complain that such budget cuts are unrealistic, Republicans could point out that the percentage of cuts that would actually take effect in their budget would almost certainly be at least as great as the percentage that have historically tended to take place [i.e. zero percent], the cuts are no less realistic than those tendered by Democrats.