is exactly the same as Solicitor General Donald Verilli tried to have the Court believe in his oral argument, namely that the health insurance mandate penalty is not a tax for purposes of the Anti-injunction Act but is a tax … Continue reading
Best 30 seconds I’ve had all day…. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! … Continue reading
That’s the title of Hillsdale College Professor Paul Rahe’s piece at Ricochet on Chief Justice John Roberts’ holding that the Obamacare mandate is a tax and not a mandate, even though Obama and his supporters went to great lengths in … Continue reading
Ben Bernanke in March, 2009: I think as those green shoots begin to appear in different markets and as some confidence begins to come back, that will begin the positive dynamic that brings our economy back. So begins a column … Continue reading
OK, so the health insurance mandate is a tax. It’s an Obamatax that is estimated to cost taxpayers at least $1 trillion, some say $1.7 trillion. The largest tax increase in the history of world, it is said. Here’s the … Continue reading
James Taranto who writes the Best of the Web Today column for The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal webpage thinks so. I think it was a small defeat that won’t stop the left one bit, but Taranto is a giant so … Continue reading
The formidable Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago says it’s “intellectually shabby” for the way Roberts has to turn himself in knots trying to justify a tax on inactivity. His statement that taxing not buying health insurance is no … Continue reading
UPDATE 10:30 EDT: So we lose our liberty. Obamacare upheld on grounds the mandate is a tax, something no one thought could be done, not even Obama. The only hope now is that Republicans sweep the White House and Congress … Continue reading