SCOTUS rewriting laws for Congress
Do you agree that SCOTUS has become a rubber-stamp for the ACA? Have they sidestepped their responsibility to interpret the Constitution and focused on the "Intent of Congress" as their guide? Should not the intent of Congress be questioned when a totally partisan bill of this magnitude is passed?
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YES They first explained how a penalty was not a penalty, but a tax. Now they ignore what is written in the law, to explain what the lawmakers meant to say but didn't. They assume that laws passed by Congress are somehow to be blindly supported by tortured interpretation of intent rather than its content. Side: Yes
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Yeah well, in this case the intent was to expand government control. To force people to buy healthcare insurance. To take from the haves a give to the have nots. To reduce the cost of nothing and simply place another burden on taxpayers in an effort to spread the wealth. But your point is correct. :( Soooooooo yeah. Side: Yes
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Enough with the fire and brimstone. The point was to increase healthcare coverage across the country for the betterment of the United States. That included forcing people to buy healthcare and subsidizing costs for the poor, but that was not the "intent". This is simply a bad piece of legislation, not some evil boogeyman. Side: Yes
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First, a bill being partisan has nothing to do with the Constitutionality of it. Second, the SCOTUS did rule based on the intent of Congress, considering how Congress had intended to pass legislation that provided healthcare to the entire country, not to provide 50 separate possible regional markets that were to be approved by the states. I may not like the ACA, but they ruled correctly here. Side: No
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