{"id":15009,"date":"2012-07-09T17:45:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T21:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15009"},"modified":"2012-07-10T12:05:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T16:05:14","slug":"would-a-president-romney-waive-obamacare-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15009\/would-a-president-romney-waive-obamacare-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Would a President Romney Waive ObamaCare Rules?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, the Obama Administration announced that Wisconsin and Washington joined 24 other states as recipients of No Child Left Behind waivers.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Education claims that Congress\u2019 repeated failure to reauthorize NCLB since it became due in 2007 empowers it to exempt petitioning states from certain requirements in exchange for accepting new rules and policies dictated by the White House.<\/p>\n<p>This links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/news\/federal\/gov-map-two-more-states-receive-nclb-waivers-total-to-26.html\" target=\"_blank\">a chart from Governing.com<\/a> identifying each state\u2019s waiver status.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in an email commentary about the waivers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/about\/staff\/b\/lindsey-burke\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsey Burke<\/a> of the Heritage Foundation summarizes President Barack Obama\u2019s justification of the waiver system as \u201cnecessary to provide relief to states that fear drowning in a cascade of sanctions that are forthcoming in 2014,\u201d such as 100 percent of students being proficient in reading and math.<\/p>\n<p>While I agree with Burke that states \u201cshould demand genuine relief from NCLB through congressionally approved options that fundamentally reduce federal intervention in education,\u201d her summary of Obama\u2019s justification for waivers got me thinking.<\/p>\n<p>If Mitt Romney gets elected president with less than full (or consistent) control of Congress and can&#8217;t repeal ObamaCare, would he resort to granting waivers from its penalties \u201cto provide relief to\u201d <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">individuals<\/span><\/em> \u201cthat fear drowning in a cascade of sanctions\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>I certainly hope so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2012\/07\/09\/opting_out_of_obamacare_114740.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Harsanyi<\/a> points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the Congressional Budget Office\u2014which can only calculate the narrow data it\u2019s given\u2014the non-tax penalty on Obamacare\u2019s non-mandate will affect 4 million people by the year 2016. Of those paying this \u2018untax,\u2019 75 percent will make less than $120,000\u2014breaking the president\u2019s promise that those making under $250,000 would not have to pay a \u201cpenny\u201d more in taxes, which, presumably, includes \u201cshared responsibility payments.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anticipating Romney\u2019s inauguration, I\u2019ll go ahead and get in line to ask, \u201cMr. President, can I have a lifetime waiver from my \u2018shared responsibility payment?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I think there\u2019s a precedent\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, the Obama Administration announced that Wisconsin and Washington joined 24 other states as recipients of No Child Left Behind waivers. The Department of Education claims that Congress\u2019 repeated failure to reauthorize NCLB since it became due in 2007 empowers it to exempt petitioning states from certain requirements in exchange for accepting new rules [&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":[64,3308,3659,35,2338],"class_list":["post-15009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-education","tag-health","tag-no-child-left-behind","tag-obamacare","tag-waiver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009","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=15009"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15016,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009\/revisions\/15016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}