Posted on 01/08/2018 7:11:07 AM PST by libstripper
Congress was able to repeal it because it was a “tax.” Since it was a tax, it could be repealed as part of a reconciliation bill with a simple majority instead of a 60-vote supermajority in the Senate.
Do you think Roberts had this in mind in the first place?
As if "starting fresh" is going to happen quickly -- if at all.
At a national level, useless, ineffective Republicans are almost always better than Democrats. Better to have a Congress that gets nothing done than a Congress that gets the wrong things done.
Meanwhile, you can follow my example and figure out how to get around ObamaCare instead of accepting the idiocy at all.
Little Bubble Boy is sooooooooooooo jealous of POTUS.
You mean Mutt Chumley?
Perhaps. There was probably a side of him that had no interest in having the U.S. Supreme Court dragged into a legal dispute over the constitutionality of a fouled-up piece of legislation that Congress botched from the start.
Bury Obamaharm with extreme prejudice.
Do you think Rubio has read what it “means”?
Marco Rubio= saltwater wetback
Hard to believe so many people thought Foam Boy could be President.
The answer is in the primary.
We MUST Cantorize the weasels.
If we don’t get more Senators that side with the citizens and not citizens of other countries who broke into ours they will give our country to them.
Only Cotton, Paul, Grassley and Cruz oppose amnesty.
They need reinforcements.
And some kind of punishment for those who voted for it or signed it, as a disincentive to them and others ever to do such a statist thing ever again.
So what’s your take on the current scenario. The individual man-date (don’t get excited there, Ebola, it’s a legislative term), wasn’t technically repealed, but rather the amount set to zero. This might make it easier to bring it back again later. Does that count as repeal for you? Not staking out a position on the issue myself, just curious how FReepers view it.
While I think the way you were going to vote would have been a mistake, I’m glad we don’t have to argue that.
The mandate was only repealed through President Trumps wisdom and incredible negotiating skills.
The Republican Congress gets scant credit for that entire tax bill in my book.
No, it doesn’t count as repeal to me.
But we’re really just talking semantics at this point. It only has to to its job for a few years. Three will be more than enough.
One of the things so important about that tax bill is that it is the first win by Trump that involved coordination with congress and the GOPe.
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