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Supreme Court Upholds Tax Subsidies Under Obamacare

Posted by Poplicola 8 years, 10 months ago to News
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Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the dissent.“The Court holds that when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act says ‘Exchange established by the State’ it means ‘Exchange established by the State or the Federal Government.’ That is of course quite absurd, and the Court’s 21 pages of explanation make it no less so,” Scalia wrote, who was also joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito in the dissent.Scalia added, “Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is ‘established by the State.’ It is hard to come up with a clearer way to limit tax credits to state Exchanges than to use the words ‘established by the State.’ And it is hard to come up with a reason to include the words ‘by the State’ other than the purpose of limiting credits to state Exchanges.”


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  • Posted by Technocracy 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Leaving it has severe financial ramifications as well. The negative impact to business and the economy as a whole gets larger every year.
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  • Posted by Technocracy 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree, maybe 10% would fight, I would not expect more than that The sheeple herd is just too large.. Of course even that (10%) is a very large absolute number.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Unfortunately, it is reality. Had you told me the things BHO is doing now, 20 years ago, I would have scoffed and said he'd be in jail or hung for treason. Too bad he's not.
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  • Posted by RevJay4 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thank goodness. With all that is going on with this administration/government, I keep thinking its a nightmare, or a flashback to AS while I read it the last time.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    How about Option 3 -- start offering under-the-table health care? If I hear about anyone doing it, I'll go to them.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 10 months ago
    These people don't even believe in a "living Constitution" any longer. Their constitution is a game of Calvinball. It's time to stop playing.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    whew. . I wouldn't hang a Battle Flag of the Army
    of Northern Virginia in front of my house, so I guess
    that I'm insane too. -- j

    p.s. the big problem arises when the actual flag out there,
    the u.s.a. flag, is considered offensive.
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  • Posted by mccwho 8 years, 10 months ago
    Perhaps there should be a requirement for the supreme court members to take college English classes. Clearly they have lost all grasp of the English language.
    Those that can... do, those that can't become teachers or politician's
    Funny but scarry truth
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=peRUTroIuNs
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Waiting in the wings is the only answer that is legal. The Military has the right, the duty and obligation to carry out the counter-revolution. Question 1. Would they think it worth the trouble. 50/50. Question 2 Since at least half of the leadership can't remember nor apply ''will not lie, cheat, steal nor tolerate those who do" would they reinstate the electorate or keep it. Question 3. Should they?

    It's an equation balanced against the power of the protective echelon to protect the revolutionaries against the counter-revolutionaries factoring the time for the teeter to totter.

    I'm thinking of buying a ticket for the 45 yard line
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Another way of saying that is the fix is in for the Wicked Witch Of The Left and her Dog Kerry. Somehow I can't see him as a flying monkey. Monkey Yes flying ...no. Benita P. Yes.

    OMG the nightmares !!!!!!

    (The above does not deserve a serious answer unless you want too.)
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 10 months ago
    We have surely lost the courts...we should no longer do business with them, Time for peaceful civil disobedience.
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  • Posted by $ number6 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks (I think lol) ... still haven't changed my mind about the pot stirrer so I guess there is still some insanity in me.
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  • Posted by XenokRoy 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I do not think it will happen either, but who knows. no one would have thought in 1740 that in 1776 a declaration of independence would be signed. Most of those that signed it had wanted to stay with England in 1766. You just never know what events will lead to.
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think primary care would be available that way, but it would be more difficult to get hospital related care I think. Much more expensive. I know I need more money, and I will get to keep less and less of it. They have a good trap set for all of us.
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  • Posted by blackswan 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No. To provide an escape for you and yours. Doctors are quitting. I imagine that they still want to work. A network of libertarian doctors, who will work for cash, will be the alternative. That might also require working with naturopathic and other alternative doctors as well.
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  • Posted by blackswan 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Those who will, won't be elected. Carson, Cruz, Paul, maybe Fiorina, won't be elected. They're already being ignored. The fix is in for Bush, or a Bush clone.
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  • Posted by blackswan 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    30% may be angry, but 30% will not put their asses on the line (go to the bar-W ranch). So, the be best solution is to do a Galt, and hide out until the smoke clears. When the system collapses, the useless eaters will provide the fire and smoke, and then they'll starve. Once that's over, the survivors might be willing to face reality, and work for a living.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I had you flagged as a possible troll from your comments
    about Pam Geller, and here you go making good sense.
    things sure have changed, lately. -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 10 months ago
    this crowd of Mostly Losers is legislating from the
    bench again. . and the crap runs downhill. -- j
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  • Posted by mccannon01 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The problem is "What 2nd Amendment?". SCOTUS has been ruling for some time the Constitution doesn't say what it says. It says what SCOTUS says it says, including a total redefinition of the 2nd Amendment if they decide it. A new SCOTUS may have it saying something else.

    *sarcasm* Isn't it exciting that we can have a new Constitution every day without changing a single word of it? *end sarcasm*
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  • Posted by starznbarz 8 years, 10 months ago
    " ... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations... " Read an interesting book while on a recent 3 hour layover, fiction, of course, based on an out of control government that had racked up a 5 trillion debt in 1997. Term Limits by Flynn. Absolutely the wrong way to respond, but an interesting read.
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  • Posted by vido 8 years, 10 months ago
    Weird, for one split second, I misread as "Obamassacre"...
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  • Posted by woodlema 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen. Cicero (106–43 BC)

    An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything. (Address of the Duke of Shao to King Li-Wang, ca 845 B.C.) Will Durant (1885–1981)

    If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. George Washington (1732–1799)

    When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    And the biggest ironies is in a speech given by the Socialist Woodrow Wilson which proves that even back a hundred years ago a person will LIE and say anything to gain power, so they can abuse it to do THEIR will.

    Liberty never came from government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    Which leads me to a truly GREAT Quote by a Republican President.

    "We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny."
    Abraham Lincoln
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    2nd amendment was there to protect us FROM the government. Now the government wants to get rid of it one chip at a time to protect THEM from us
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