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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: rojawe on March 21, 2012, 08:45:04 AM
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Cuccinelli: if ObamaCare stands, the gov’t “can order you to do anything”
by Joel McDurmon on Mar 21, 2012
CNSNews.com reports,
“If the government can just order you to buy something, and fine you if you don’t” – the way the individual mandate of Obamacare requires every American to buy government-approved health insurance and fines them if they don’t comply – “they can order you to do anything,” Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said during an appearance on C-SPAN’s “Newsmaker” on Sunday.
Cuccinelli, the first attorney general to file a lawsuit challenging Obamacare, said out of 16 judges that have heard the lawsuit so far, only one has ruled that the fine amounts to a tax.
“Of 16 judges, one found it to be a tax. Unfortunately for Virginia, he sits in the 4th Circuit and he’ll be there for a long time. But, this is a truly radical position, because if the government can just order you to buy something, and fine you if you don’t, and because they can fine you, that comes under the taxing power and therefore makes it constitutional, they can order you to do anything,” Cuccinelli said.