by Jane Richey | Feb 21, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Health Care, Politics
Dunkin’ Brands — the owner of Dunkin’ Donuts — is working to overturn a major provision of Obamacare. The company,based in Canton, Mass., is lobbying the White House to change its definition of full-time work from at least 30 hours a week to 40 or more per week, CEO...
by Jane Richey | Jul 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
It looks like a tax, smells like a tax, and the Supreme Court says it must be a tax. But politicians in both parties are squirming over how to define the Thing in President Barack Obama’s health care law that requires people to pay up if they don’t get...
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...
by Jane Richey | Jun 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Obama administration launched a pre-emptive ad blitz on June 19, touting the Obama health law’s benefits days before the U.S. Supreme Court will announce its ruling on ObamaCare’s constitutionality. The ads claim there’s a lot to lose if the law...