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How Much Is The Obamacare Mandate Going To Cost You? – Forbes
At Forbes.com, Grace-Marie Turner outlines the income-dependent penalties (“taxes”) for not buying a legal medical insurance policy. Continue reading
Can the IRS Can Use Liens and Incarceration to Enforce ObamaCare’s Individual Mandate?
“But, money being fungible, the IRS may simply deem my first $1,000 of income-tax withholding to be payment of that penalty,” & use all its intimidation power to collect the $1000 or real tax owed. Continue reading
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Tagged mandatory insurance, NFIB v. Sebelius, tax vs. penalty
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Dave Kopel Explains SCOTUS ObamaCare Decision
Host Jon Caldara is joined by Dave Kopel, constitutional law professor and attorney of record for two (count ‘em, two) Independence Institute amicus briefs in the Obamacare Supreme Court case, to dissect and explain the court’s rulings on the controversial health care law. Continue reading
Dave Kopel Responds to ObamaCare Decision
The Court’s decision against the Medicaid mandate means that Colorado has the right to choose whether or not to drastically expand state spending on Medicaid; Congress cannot coerce Coloradans to do so. Continue reading
The dubious policy assumptions behind ObamaCare’s legal defense
ObamaCare’s legal defense relies as much on policy arguments—about the nature of uncompensated medical care, the role of Medicaid, and the interaction of the law’s various provisions—as it does on constitutional reasoning. But the policy case is just as dubious as the constitutional one. Continue reading
Thomas Sowell: Obama lies about Supreme Court & health care
“There is no way that Barack Obama has never heard of it or really believes it to be “unprecedented” after two centuries of countless precedents. In short, he is simply lying.” Continue reading
Memo to Justice Kagan: Taxes Are Coercive
Apparently Justice Elena Kagan is oblivious to the obvious fact that taxes are coercive, in that they forcibly take wealth away from the owners of that wealth and give it to others. Continue reading
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Tagged federalism, ObamaCare lawsuit, taxes
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3 Reasons to End Obamacare Before it Begins
1. It Represents the End of Limited Government. 2. Its Price Tag is Already Ballooning. 3. Obamacare Won’t Make Us Healthier. Continue reading
Jared Polis (D-Boulder) wrong about Constitution & mandatory health coverage
Jared Polis argues that mandatory health coverage specified by ObamaCare is a tax, and hence is Constitutional. The problem with this argument is that President Obama himself has argued that the mandate is not a tax. Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution & health care, Jared Polis, ObamaCare lawsuit
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