Obama Defending Insurance Mandate as Tax
By: Les Carpenter III Rational Nation USA Remember back when ObamaCare collectivism was being debated? Recall that the"One", and his Democrat minions, declared that the mandate to purchase health care was not a tax? Surprise! Now that the progressive collectivist have won another for the books they are switching the tune. The Obama administration is now declaring in open court the mandate requiring an individual to purchase health insurance, scheduled to take effect in 2014, is simply an exercise of the government's "power to lay and collect taxes." In addition, their belief is that this power exceeds even the federal government power to regulate interstate commerce. In a brief filed by the Justice Department in response to the challenges in court by over twenty states ans several private concerns the Obama administration takes the position the mandate...