re: Obamacare passed in Supreme Court because it was considered a TAX

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women in combat

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I like to believe that American men fight wars so our women and children are protected. We should not be sending them off to die.

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It passed bc Roberts legislated from the bench which the SCOTUS is not supposed to do

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It was passed because someone threatened Roberts with something so intimidating that he reversed himself and sided with the government. Such was referenced in the Podesta emails, but what he was scared with was never revealed. I, for one, want to know what it took to effectively blackmail a Supreme Court Justice.

Obama admin has repeatedly used a scheme called sue and settle. An outside group sues the EPA for a regulation they don't like and the admin declines to defend itself and settles.

Similar process could be used here - encourage someone to challenge the constitutionality of Obamacare and decline to defend the suit and the law gets overturned.

That's how dens play democracy.

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It passed bc Roberts legislated from the bench which the SCOTUS is not supposed to do; Obama & crew argued it was a fine

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not in front of the SCOTUS they didn't

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It passed bc Roberts legislated from the bench which the SCOTUS is not supposed to do; Obama & crew argued it was a fine

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not in front of the SCOTUS they didn't

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They absolutely did and did not at the same time.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. “Today you are arguing that the penalty is not a tax,” he told Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., the administration’s lead advocate. “Tomorrow you are going to be back and you will be arguing that the penalty is a tax. Has the court ever held that something that is a tax for purposes of the taxing power under the Constitution is not a tax under the Anti-Injunction Act?”

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This tac is not meant to be a source of revenue,

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The penalties go into the government coffers.