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   On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:40:38 -0700, Ashton Crusher    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:36:46 -0400, Ubiquitous    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>And yet ObamaCare, even the individual mandate, stands. Roberts accepted   
   >>the alternative argument that the penalty for defying the mandate is a   
   >>legitimate exercise of Congress's taxing power:   
   >>   
   >>	Under the mandate, if an individual does not maintain health   
   >>	insurance, the only consequence is that he must make an   
   >>	additional payment to the IRS when he pays his taxes.   
   >   
   >Following that logic, anything a person could be asked to do, and that   
   >they don't do, can be taxed when they don't do it.  For example, if   
   >the gvt thinks its a good idea for you to buy and eat 15 grams of   
   >fiber a day they could make that a mandate and provide a tax   
   >requirement for those who don't submit proofs of purchase with their   
   >tax returns.   
   >   
   >The ruling is complete and utter bullshit.   
      
   Tonight on NBC Nightly News Legal Correspondent Savannah Guthrie   
   hinted that John Roberts is so fed up with the SC split down political   
   lines that instead of rendering the Commerce side of Oboobuhcare   
   unconstitutional he went down the side that  it was a tax and could be   
   used to tax the crap out of us Constitutionally.   
   6/28/2012   
      
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