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To: servantboy777

Not good news. Since they cited Roberts, & since Roberts ruled it was a tax & therefore Constitutional, going back to the SC is not likely to help.


12 posted on 07/29/2014 9:42:12 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter
Roberts ruled it was a tax

A tax?

Roberts was focused on the individual mandate as a tax, not on the Origination Clause. He decided the mandate was a tax in order to avoid finding that it was an unconstitutional exercise of the Commerce Clause (which was what the bill's authors actually intended).

But the bill actually contains a slew of new, unambiguous taxes, such as the medical device tax. The individual mandate was one among many.

79 posted on 07/29/2014 2:05:47 PM PDT by cynwoody
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