DOMA Unconstitutional – Scalia Unhappy – Let’s Get Practical
DOMA’s principal effect is to identify and make unequal a subset of state-sanctioned marriages. It contrives to deprive some couples married under the laws of their State, but not others, of both rights and responsibilities, creating two contradictory marriage regimes within the same State. It also forces same-sex couples to live as married for the purpose of state law but unmarried for the purpose of federal law, thus diminishing the stability and predictability of basic personal relations the State has found it proper to acknowledge and protect.
Tea Party Patriots Do Some Splainin
TPP Inc is not some sort of dark money operation given that it made its way to $20,0000,000 forty dollars at a time. It is also clear that TPP Inc is expressive of a certain strain of grassroots sentiment. Obamacare is one big grievance and immigration is another. I find the passion about Obamacare puzzling as it does not extend to Medicare. We don’t want a cradle to grave welfare state, but 65 to grave is OK ? At 61, I’m almost to the promised land myself and maybe then I too will want to keep the government out of my Medicare.
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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.