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  • Is the “Tax” Justification of the Health Care Bill its Achilles’ Heel?

    Is the “Tax” Justification of the Health Care Bill its Achilles’ Heel?

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    MAJORITY’S DECISION MIGHT NOT WITHSTAND FURTHER LEGAL SCRUTINY by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 2, 2012) — Earlier today, The Post & Email asked whether or not the Supreme Court decision released on Thursday on the health care law is being misrepresented in the national media by characterizing that the law was “upheld.” Chief Justice John Roberts…

  • The Power to Destroy

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    JOHN ROBERTS’ MASQUERADE by Joseph DeMaio, ©2012 (Jun. 30, 2012) — “The power to tax involves the power to destroy.” — M’Culloch v. State of Maryland, 17 U.S. 316, 431 (1819) (Chief Justice John Marshall). There are a couple of ways to view and analyze what happened on June 28, 2012, when a badly fractured Supreme Court…