{"id":22327,"date":"2015-02-02T20:03:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T01:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22327"},"modified":"2015-02-02T20:03:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T01:03:25","slug":"white-house-considering-more-obamacare-exemptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22327\/white-house-considering-more-obamacare-exemptions\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Considering More ObamaCare Exemptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the corrupting tendencies of the modern administrative state.<\/p>\n

When the ruling elite\u2019s social engineering policies threaten to weaken its grip on power, the law can be bent in any way that pleases them.<\/p>\n

Exhibit A is a news article from the New York Times<\/a><\/em>, which begins, \u201cObama administration officials and other supporters of the Affordable Care Act say they worry that the tax-filing season will generate new anger as uninsured consumers learn that they must pay tax penalties and as many people struggle with complex forms needed to justify tax credits they received in 2014 to pay for health insurance.”<\/p>\n

The solution: \u201cThe White House has already granted some exemptions and is considering more to avoid a political firestorm.\u201d<\/p>\n

You read that correctly. If lots of people will be angry because ObamaCare is slated to work as designed \u2013 by ensuring that the people who received insurance subsidies actually qualified for them \u2013 it\u2019s completely permissible to just exempt them from compliance.<\/p>\n

This is interest group politics run amuck.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been said before, but it\u2019s worth repeating. If Mitt Romney had said during the 2012 presidential campaign that all he needed to repeal ObamaCare was to be elected so he could not enforce the law, the Left would have been up in arms swearing to sue him in court for dereliction of duty. When Barack Obama does the same thing it\u2019s suddenly accepted as executive discretion.<\/p>\n

One day liberals may see a conservative reap a policy windfall thanks to Obama\u2019s careless actions. If this is the way it\u2019s going to be in the future, don\u2019t be surprised to see presidents of every partisan stripe erode the rule of law by carving out exemptions for their political base. Today it\u2019s the working poor. Tomorrow it might be trust fund kids who see their capital gains taxes go uncollected.<\/p>\n

And then, we\u2019ll be Greece<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the corrupting tendencies of the modern administrative state. When the ruling elite\u2019s social engineering policies threaten to weaken its grip on power, the law can be bent in any way that pleases them. Exhibit A is a news article from the New York Times, which begins, \u201cObama administration […]<\/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":[143,4191,4426,786,735,160,35,2249,2338],"class_list":["post-22327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-delay","tag-exemption","tag-greece","tag-irs","tag-mitt-romney","tag-obamacare","tag-subsidy","tag-waiver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22327","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=22327"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22333,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22327\/revisions\/22333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}