Changing Stance, Administration Now Defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax
WASHINGTON — When Congress required most Americans to obtain health
insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a
new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now
defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to
lay and collect taxes.”
And that power, they say, is even more sweeping than the federal power
to regulate interstate commerce.
Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their
legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual
mandate, now being challenged in court by more than 20 states and
several private organizations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/health/policy/18health.html?_r=1&ref=politics
OBAMA....incompetent, inexperienced, inept, incapable of telling the
TRUTH.....and EVIL!!!!!