Posted on 07/01/2014 5:51:42 PM PDT by annalex
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Former Rep Bart Stupack can go to hell as far as I am concerned. Pro-life my arse.
Depressingly, this is right.
It’s a toehold in a war that has many challenges ahead of it.
The Lord can wipe out evil through His love. But people have to be willing to accept the love. Love by definition can’t be stuffed down an unwilling person’s throat.
As for Obamacare itself, here’s my hopeful prognosis — the Calvinball can only be kept up so long before Obamacare rots into a joke. Now will the joke be laughed off or will it be reverently enshrined, that is the question.
Keywords “family owned” “closely held”
Is Hobby Lobby really a corporation or is it just a family owned and operated company
A politician is someone trained in appealing to the largest segments of the electorate without being obviously inconsistent. So we have pro-life Democrats and pro-gun rights democrats; or pro-gay Republicans. These are all puzzle pieces for them, not internal convictions. With Stupack, the pro-life piece fit so badly, the contradiction ended his career. He did not vote for Obamacare despite his convictions, he took on the pro-life piece of the puzzle and it fell out. Very few politicians can be trusted, either “pro-life” or pro-anything.
So this ruling really is very narrow-gauge. Nevertheless, it is the kind of "pin-prick" that can make the Grand Egotist in Chief explode. Always a Work of Mercy worth doing.
Yes, that is probably the narrowest.
Generally, a closely held corporation is a corporation that:IRS Q+A publicationThe definitions for the terms "directly or indirectly" and "individual" are in Publication 542, Corporations. A closely held corporation is subject to additional limitations in the tax treatment of items such as passive activity losses, at-risk rules, and compensation paid to corporate officers.
- Has more than 50% of the value of its outstanding stock owned (directly or indirectly) by 5 or fewer individuals at any time during the last half of the tax year; and
- Is not a personal service corporation.
Observe that this precludes Hobby Lobby for ever from seeking infusion of capital, whether or not the investor shares their values.
Yes, if I remember right, he voted for Obamacare after Obama gave him a promise of brightly colored trinkets.
What I am saying in 8 is that politicians wear convictions like hats. Just like someone in a sombrero is not necessarily a Mexican, so someone with a pro-life voting record is not necessarily pro-life: he just considered pro-life voting record a good accessory to wear.
Perhaps your post auto corrected. But Stupak voted FOR Obamacare. As I said before, I consider him a hypocrite for his “pro-life” posturing.
It’s a beginning, though. Our most pressing question at this point is not what can go wrong, but what can go right — and working with providence to that end.
Nobody can invest in closely held corporations? That’s a technicality of current law. If being closely held becomes the new trend, Congress could modify this.
The situation of publicly traded would have to be treated separately if and when it arose. The USSC smiled on closely held corporations; it hasn’t yet frowned at other ones.
It’s interesting that if they try to trade more stock and get bigger via more investors, they lose their Constitutional right to the Free Exercise of Religion. Amirite?
He did not vote for Obamacare despite his convictions...It was meant to be a double negation: "he voted for Obamacare not despite his convictions but because he had no convictions". See my 13 clarifying.
It is a beginning; I don’t mean to rain on anyone’s parade.
Thanx for clarifying. That’s what I thought you meant.
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