Some little gems coming out of this decision...
1.) odumbass vehemently denied that this was a tax while trying to sell it.
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"If your family makes less than $250,000... less than a quarter of a million dollars... your taxes will not be increased by 1 penny."
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Congratulations. This decision officially made obamacare a "tax" and is therefore an absolutely enormous tax increase square on the shoulders of the working, healthy, middle class. I'm sure voters will take that news well.
2.) Gives Romney a hell of a platform. Repeal Obamacare, plain and simple. Constitutional or not, polls show decisively that Americans are against it.
3.) Eliminates the future use of the commerce clause as a guise for social programs. Going forward, it now has to be presented as a tax or be deemed unconstitutional. Good luck getting support for that.
4.) Energizes those against this socialist bullshit about as much as any issue could.
Should get interesting.
The real question... did the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court make his decision in an attempt to give the Republicans their platform for 2012. If so... that would be a pretty damn brilliant move. Libs are too f**king stupid to see the 2nd and 3rd order consequences of something so as they sit thinking "their side" just won something, in reality it might just be a bomb waiting to blow up right in their faces.
