[massgopguy]

EX POST FACTO!!!!!!!

[Principled]

These proposals are RETROACTIVE...

Nope. No can do. That is if we are to follow our laws.

[Lurking Libertarian]

EX POST FACTO!!!!!!!

Way back in 1798, the Supreme Court held that the Constitution's ban on ex post facto laws only applied to criminal laws, not civil ones. (Calder v. Bull.) Retroactive tax laws have sometimes been upheld and have sometimes been struck down as violations of the Due Process Clause; this proposal way well be found unconstitutional, but that is not a sure thing.

[Jacquerie]

Ex post facto was understood at the Constitutional Convention, as per Blackstone's Commentaries, to apply to criminal matters only. It is why the prohibition on bills of attainder accompany it in Article I Section 9.

The Schmuckster's bill still stinks.