Lamar Smith Joins The Ranks Of Hovindologists
Things have been quiet here on Your Tax Matters Partner. The raison d'etre of this blog is tax matters that I don't find forbes worthy. The recent tax bill has kept...
Religious Liberty Suit Against Obamacare Will Move Forward
At any rate, the arguments in Mr. Cash’s complaint are mostly pretty familiar. He argues that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) exceeds Congress’s taxing power and its legislative power when you consider the Tenth Amendment. Mr. Cash told me believes that it is possible that a state might have the power to require insurance, as happened in Massachusetts. Before Obamacare there was Romneycare. That doesn’t bother him so much, because he could move.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.