Obama Solicitor General: Don't Like HC Mandate?

[IDBillzFan]

Then earn less money.

 

During the Sixth Circuit arguments, Judge Jeffrey Sutton, who was nominated by President George W. Bush, asked Kaytal if he could name one Supreme Court case which considered the same question as the one posed by the mandate, in which Congress used the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution as a tool to compel action.

 

Kaytal conceded that the Supreme Court had “never been confronted directly” with the question, but cited the Heart of Atlanta Motel case as a relevant example. In that landmark 1964 civil rights case, the Court ruled that Congress could use its Commerce Clause power to bar discrimination by private businesses such as hotels and restaurants.

 

“They’re in the business,” Sutton pushed back. “They’re told if you’re going to be in the business, this is what you have to do. In response to that law, they could have said, ‘We now exit the business.’ Individuals don’t have that option.”

 

Kaytal responded by noting that the there's a provision in the health care law that allows people to avoid the mandate.

 

“If we’re going to play that game, I think that game can be played here as well, because after all, the minimum coverage provision only kicks in after people have earned a minimum amount of income,” Kaytal said. “So it’s a penalty on earning a certain amount of income and self insuring. It’s not just on self insuring on its own. So I guess one could say, just as the restaurant owner could depart the market in Heart of Atlanta Hotel, someone doesn’t need to earn that much income. I think both are kind of fanciful and I think get at…”

 

Sutton interjected, “That wasn’t in a single speech given in Congress about this...the idea that the solution if you don’t like it is make a little less money.”

 

Stupid should hurt. A lot.

[Doc]

The Heart of Atlanta motel case isn't relevant since it wasn't forcing black people to spend their money. Much less be fined/taxed if they didn't.

 

The sooner SCOTUS votes against this Obamanation of a/the law the better. Playing games, indeed.

[DC Tom]

Then earn less money.

 

 

 

Stupid should hurt. A lot.

 

That's got to be out of context. No one's that dumb who doesn't post here.

[IDBillzFan]

That's got to be out of context. No one's that dumb who doesn't post here.

Read the article. Not out of context. In fact, it goes out of its way to provide the context just to show how he went the long way around the barn to come to this ridiculous "Throw the gun" argument.

 

My concern is that we got to this place because we were willing to vote for "Anyone but Bush." And now thanks to the unbelievable incompetence of the current administration, we're going to elect someone who is "Anyone but Obama." Probably won't end much better next time, either.

 

Jesus.

Edited June 3, 2011 by LABillzFan