by Jane Richey | Jul 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Voters haven’t split clearly in one direction or another on last week’s Supreme Court ruling on health care, according to a Pew Research Center poll. In fact, it doesn’t look like voters even fully understand what the court decided. Here are...
by Jane Richey | Jul 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Republican lawmakers are asking governors to support the repeal of President Obama’s healthcare reform law by refusing to implement its provisions. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) are leading the group, which focused on the...
by Jane Richey | Jul 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
According to press reports, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One that the penalty was not a tax but a penalty. “It’s a penalty, because you have a choice. You don’t have a choice to pay your taxes, right,” Carney is quoted...
by Jane Richey | Jul 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the court’s four liberals to uphold the constitutionality of Obamacare: “No one would doubt that this law imposed a tax, and was within Congress’s power to tax,” he wrote. “That conclusion should not change simply because...
by Jane Richey | Jul 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Obamacare’s individual mandate is not a tax, “it’s a penalty,” White House chief of staff Jack Lew told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” “What the Supreme Court said was, this was constitutional. They said it didn’t...
