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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (23590)	4/4/2012 11:46:10 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

in addition to the fact the the individual mandate isn't a tax, it wouldn't fall withing the constitutional limits for the American federal government if it was a tax. But that point doesn't matter too much since its a mandate not a tax. I'm finding the irony amusing. They could have made it a tax but they were so keen on not using the "t" word that they hoisted themselves they their own proverbial petard. The simple fix, I suppose, would be to make it a tax.