Obama OMB Admits Obamacare Penalties Are Not Taxes (Obama's OMB admits Obamacare not constitutional)

National Review ^ | 2/14/2012 | Daniel Foster

[tobyhill]

Rep. Scott Garrett (R., N.J.) had a nice gambit just now in a hearing with President Obama’s acting OMB director Jeffrey Zients.

First he asked Zients if the Obama budget imposes any new taxes on Americans making less than $200,000. When Zients answered that it did not, Garrett followed up by asking if an individual making less than $200,000 a year opted not to carry health insurance, in contravention of the Affordable Care Act, is the fine associated with that decision a tax?

After some hemming and hawing, Zients answered that the fine did not constitute an tax.

[GeronL]

But in court they will be taxes

[Safrguns]

When judges are unwilling to defend this country and it’s constitution by acting on blatantly clear evidence that Obama himself is unconstitutional, then there is no hope.

The constitution says ANYTHING that someone like Obama says that it says.

It has no meaning.

Thuggery rules, and it doesn’t matter whether or not the mandates are constitutional.

Our court system has FAILED to perform it’s vital function of providing checks and balances because WE have allowed congress and the media to empower people like Clinton and Obama to put people in the judiciary that DO NOT BELIEVE in our constitution.

The evidence is in.

Court is adjourned.

Welcome to the USSA.

[holden]

All the plaintiffs arguing in front of SCOTUS has to do is read this statement and the Supreme Court will have no choice but to rule it unconstitutional

Oh, come on! You've not heard how Axelrod's words about Blagojevich's pay-to-play scheme regarding Obama's newly vacant Senate seat were conveniently declared "mispoke[n]?" Zients' testimony will certainly not be allowed to create logical dissonance to the administration's position before SCOTUS.

HF