Let's Stop this MessAPolitico!

Friday, September 6, 2013

Is the Obamacare Tax Legal?


Section 7 of Article I of the U.S. Constitution starts with this statement:  "All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills."  The Affordable Care Act was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court after they decided that the penalties called for in the act were taxes rather than fines.  Therefore Obamacare was a revenue raising bill.  According to Article I Section 7 of the Constitution, this type bill must originate in the House of Representatives, but it didn't.  The Affordable Care Act came out of the Senate.  When is this going to be brought before the Supreme Court?  Why does our Congress just allow the constitution to be trampled?  I would rather see the House taking a meaningful action like this instead of the symbolic stuff they've been doing.  Passing total repeal of the Affordable Care Act is nice for showing your disdain for the act, but it will never even be brought up for a vote in the Senate.

Does the Republican MessAPolitico really want to stop Obamacare?  I wonder if they do.  Are they afraid of the liberal media saying bad things about them?  Have they given in to the President, because they are afraid of him?  I think they are.  They should be afraid of their bosses -- us.  We elected them, and we will either re-elect them or not when their next election comes around.

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