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Yes it is true. They don't mind the goverment intruding on people for the sake of national security or anything like that. What does gay marriage have to do with it? That is a religious and moral issue for them that upsets them to their core (I'm not fond of the idea either but I won't lose...

It's not a national security issue. National security is just one of the examples I provided earlier. Conservatives are against gay marriage on religious grounds, and opposition is growing less and less and is mainly in the fundamental south (I'm not a fundie). It's not a big issue for me, in...

Except those are all examples of incentives, not penalties. The government is not penalizing you for not having a mortgage or having children, it's giving you tax credits for having them. There's very big difference even if the results seem to be the same. Imagine if you had to pay a tax...

It is true that conservatives don't mind the government intruding on people for the sake of national security or anything like that. Spying on suspected terrorists or people with potential ties to terrorists is fine. Forcing people to buy insurance or pay a tax is not fine. And for the...

This is a penalty tax collected by the IRS for not purchasing something, not a tax credit that's not available for not having something. The results may seem the same but the ramifications are night and day. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The biggest issue is the precedence this...

And how does the bill stop people from paying the cheaper tax penalty then purchasing an expensive plan when they get sick? Forcing people to buy insurance is not the solution, and it greatly angers me that that's what the government is doing.

What? What reasoning? I simply stated NJ has a doctor shortage and some parts of the country have even worse shortages, mostly rural areas. It's going to get worse and that's a fact. Are you young and now forced to buy insurance? Congratulations, you now subsidize everyone else. They need...

I don't mean buy it and pax a tax, I mean buy it or pay a tax which is what this decision is. It's like if your government in Denmark forced you to buy low-fat foods or pax a tax, but not in the form of taxing your alternative foods more (high fat foods), but as a penalty due at tax time. And...

Obamacare was primary, economy bolstered it. Republicans were running on a platform of "repeal Obamacare". Obama personally kept claiming it wasn't a tax. He had to or it would never have passed. He also lost the medicaid issue and congress will most likely have to go back and rework parts...

Wait. It's only been two hours. The House was lost in 2010 because of Obamacare, and now two years later it's even less popular. Just wait and get your popcorn ready. My biggest concern is what precedent this sets.

Liberals weren't fired up enough to keep control of the House in 2010. Watch Romney's fundraising skyrocket now. People are going to be pissed, and it's because of the mandate. There's some great things in that monster law that was passed without people even reading it (remember Pelosi saying...

This tax is now essentially the same thing as giving them the power under the commerce clause. Just force people to do or buy something under penalty of tax instead.

Not me, but it's not easy to just move elsewhere. If it was I'd be in sunny hot Florida. Nothing was taken over, but they're going to tax people who don't buy insurance. Either way many peoples' budgets will be stretched thin. This is not a tiny expense, and I doubt that enough people will...

NJ already has a growing doctor shortage, and in other areas of the country there's an even greater shortage, and that's without everyone having insurance. I'm curious about the medicaid ruling. States can no longer be forced by the feds, so what's the ramifications?

Obama: "This is not a tax" Supreme Court: "This is a tax" This is not the victory for the administration people think it is, and the medicaid decision throws everything off. Like Dreadnought said, the administration would have been better off if the individual mandate was struck down...

Yeah? Where's my White Privilege? What do I get for being white that others don't? I haven't received a damned thing because of the color of my skin. And I shouldn't. Nobody should. Race should not be a determining factor. I find this bake sale amusing and say it's about damned time.

The OP opened biased and bigoted and yet he's not the one who received an infraction? If you have an issue with moderator actions, please take it up with the moderators. Also, please don't call another member's post biased and bigoted.

New York is screwed if Tsar Bomba is dropped on me, and I'm screwed if it's dropped on New York.

This is huge if it's true, but I fear there will be a lot of violence against these women that's not investigated and swept under the rug.

And they don't seem to want to budge on any of those demands. Those demands are 100% unacceptable for Israel. Yeah this whole UN thing is one giant PR stunt, and it won't work. Sure, here at CFC it will work wonders, but it won't do a thing in the UN. If Abbas and the Palestinians keep...