{"id":14859,"date":"2012-06-28T14:02:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T18:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14859"},"modified":"2012-06-28T14:02:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T18:02:49","slug":"scotus-does-obama%e2%80%99s-congress%e2%80%99-dirty-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14859\/scotus-does-obama%e2%80%99s-congress%e2%80%99-dirty-work\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Does Obama\u2019s, Congress\u2019 Dirty Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a lot to say about Chief Justice John Roberts\u2019 opinion rewriting ObamaCare\u2019s individual mandate as a tax in order to save the law from being ruled unconstitutional.\u00a0 One of the best \u2013 and most succinct \u2013 analyses comes from the CATO Institute\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/congress-its-not-a-tax-scotus-yes-it-is\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael F. Cannon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Supreme Court ruled that ObamaCare\u2019s individual mandate is not constitutional under the Commerce Power, which was how Congress framed the mandate to avoid a political backlash from calling it a tax. Congress and the president swore up and down that the mandate was not a tax. Yet the Court upheld the mandate as a valid use of that disavowed taxing power.\u00a0What Congress said the individual mandate\u00a0is, the Court said is\u00a0not\u00a0constitutional. What Congress said the mandate is\u00a0not, the Court ruled\u00a0is\u00a0constitutional.\u00a0Everybody got that?<\/p>\n<p>Where does that leave us?<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court just enacted a law that Congress never would have passed.<\/p>\n<p>The Court just told Congress it is okay to lie to the people to avoid political accountability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a lot to say about Chief Justice John Roberts\u2019 opinion rewriting ObamaCare\u2019s individual mandate as a tax in order to save the law from being ruled unconstitutional.\u00a0 One of the best \u2013 and most succinct \u2013 analyses comes from the CATO Institute\u2019s Michael F. Cannon: The Supreme Court ruled that ObamaCare\u2019s individual mandate is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,3308,311,1829,35,1447,995,284],"class_list":["post-14859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-health","tag-individual-mandate","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-reform","tag-u-s-constitution","tag-u-s-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14859"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14864,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859\/revisions\/14864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}