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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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To: cynwoody

Okay, but the fact is that Roberts will look like a dolt if he ruled the Obamacare tax was constitutional the first time but rules that another aspect of the Obamacare tax makes it unconstitutional the second go round.


80 posted on 07/29/2014 2:18:24 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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