The Case of The Two Legged Stool

The ACA is a naked command to buy an insurance product the government deems suitable,” Texas Solicitor General Kyle Hawkins argued in court papers.

“Bereft of penalties, the mandate now raises no revenue and therefore cannot by any conceivable definition be considered a tax,” he added. “Stripped of its tax status, the individual mandate is nothing more than an unconstitutional congressional mandate to purchase health insurance.”

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