Obama administration: Health-care mandates are taxes after all

The BlogProf wants to make sure that the banked embers of our health care rage are agitated a little as we watch, listen, learn, and wait for the Nov elections to be over and we can persuade our newly elected Conservative leaders to either REPEAL or DEFUND this horrible bill.

In order to protect the new national health care law from legal challenges, the Obama administration has been forced to argue that the individual mandate represents a tax — even though Obama himself argued the exact opposite while campaigning to pass the legislation.

Late last night, the Obama Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss the Florida-based lawsuit against the health care law, arguing that the court lacks jurisdiction and that the State of Florida and fellow plaintiffs haven’t presented a claim for which the court can grant relief. To bolster its case, the DOJ cited the Anti-Injunction Act, which restricts courts from interfering with the government’s ability to collect taxes.

More interesting details in the article.

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