Individual Mandate Constitutional

[CJ]

I dunno. Insurance is fucking expensive. We have 2 adults and a child in my family and it is $500 a month.

$2000 for the whole year doesn't look like much when you spend $6000 a year.

$2100 year and you receive nothing. And for a lot of people it's going to be a hell of a lot more. And I believe that is per tax payer, so if your wife files, $4200.

[talisman]

This was a surprise, really? This is just another step in the direction we have been heading for a long time.

I'm surprised. For all my doom and gloom about what has happened to this country since 9/11, I still had faith in it. This seriously blows my mind it is so wrong.

[slow06]

I dunno. Insurance is fucking expensive. We have 2 adults and a child in my family and it is $500 a month.

$2000 for the whole year doesn't look like much when you spend $6000 a year.

Yeah but you aren't getting insurance for that $2,000. Its a fine, pure and simple.

Edit: CJ beat me to it.

[mstng86]

$2100 year and you receive nothing. And for a lot of people it's going to be a hell of a lot more. And I believe that is per tax payer, so if your wife files, $4200.

This is very true. But the graphic made it sound like it was a family.

I recalculated. I spend $600 a month. So 7200 a year.

[jw33]

And the hospital just became the post office.

[ceyko]

This blows my mind.

I don't know 1 single person that supports this at all. AT ALL. I don't know if it is the people I hang out with or what, but I don't know ANYONE.

Which makes me wonder, how the hell did it pass? Are a whole lot of other citizens in support of it?

Edit - anyone have statistics on percentages supporting it vs not supporting it from a public opinion?

[Vertnut]

This may be what Romney needed to put him over the top. It's the ONLY way this will be stopped now.

[Dacotua]

Since healthcare is a "Tax" now, I want to write it off on my income tax

[ceyko]

This may be what Romney needed to put him over the top. It's the ONLY way this will be stopped now.

Only way he'd be re-elected too - is to stomp on this one.

[Treasure Chest]

The uphold healthcare reform, but they deemed the Stolen Valor Act unconstitutional...

[Strychnine]

Hilarious positive spin from Forbes



Although the IRS is charged with collecting the penalty for not having health insurance, they are precluded from using their most powerful collection tools – recorded liens and levies. The only sure means of collecting the penalty from someone who does not want to pay it is to offset a refund. So someone who managed their tax payments to always have a balance due would never have to pay the penalty

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2012/06/28/individual-mandate-in-obamacare-is-constitutional/

[IHaveAMustang]

This may be what Romney needed to put him over the top. It's the ONLY way this will be stopped now.

This is what I am hoping. He has been handed a silver arrow to kill the beast in the whitehouse...let's hope he aims straight and true.

[CJ]

Hilarious positive spin from Forbes



Although the IRS is charged with collecting the penalty for not having health insurance, they are precluded from using their most powerful collection tools – recorded liens and levies. The only sure means of collecting the penalty from someone who does not want to pay it is to offset a refund. So someone who managed their tax payments to always have a balance due would never have to pay the penalty

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjre...onstitutional/

That's a joke, they will place liens and levies I promise you. The first year it goes through, no one will pay it, and they will claim it's unfair the rich and wealthy people are avoiding the tax with a "loop hole" and they need to close it.

[talisman]

Hilarious positive spin from Forbes



Although the IRS is charged with collecting the penalty for not having health insurance, they are precluded from using their most powerful collection tools – recorded liens and levies. The only sure means of collecting the penalty from someone who does not want to pay it is to offset a refund. So someone who managed their tax payments to always have a balance due would never have to pay the penalty

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjre...onstitutional/

Makes me want to cancel my coverage just to stick it up their ass.

[jw33]

This is what I am hoping. He has been handed a silver arrow to kill the beast in the whitehouse...let's hope he aims straight and true.

Make no mistake, this ruling did not make it any easier for Romney. The hill just got more steep and the snow has started to fall.