<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra">On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:16 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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>> It's too late for that, YOU ALREADY BOUGHT IT!<br></blockquote><br>> This is a tax bill which does not conform to the requirements of article 1 section 7 clause 1. We have never already bought it and we are not already buying it now.<br>
</blockquote><br>Although it will come as a big surprise to the Tea Party the fact is that there are other things in the world than Obamacare, and the pronoun “it” that I used above does NOT refer to Obamacare, “it" refers to all the bills for all the stuff that you already voted to buy that would be declared overdue in just 90 minutes.<br>
<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"> > The house has never bought the ACA opt-out penalty as a tax. Reasoning: the ACA originated in the Senate and was passed into law on 30 March 2010 [...] However, they confirmed that the individual mandate is legal if it is declared a tax, and the fed can levy a tax under the 16th amendment. So now [...]<br>
</blockquote><br>Spike, I never said what the Republicans were doing was unconstitutional, I said it was astoundingly stupid and irresponsible. And there are other things happening in the world, this obsession over Obamacare is counterproductive; when people see a very unpopular organization like the Tea Party (that has become dramatically more unpopular in the last 30 days) hate something that much they figure it can’t be all bad. As for me I no longer much care if Obamacare is a good idea or bad because the significance of the entire issue is dwarfed by the looming menace of default and the slack jawed stupidity that almost caused that to happen and still might in January. <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"> John K Clark<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><br></div></div>