Saturday, July 9, 2016

"Three major casualties of Obamacare have been the rule of law, the separation of powers, and the Constitution."



A recent WEEKLY STANDARD editorial highlighted how the federal government is hiding some $104 billion in federal spending by falsely labeling Obamacare's outlays to insurance companies as "tax credits." Now a 157-page investigative report released by two powerful House committees—Ways and Means in conjunction with Energy and Commerce—finds that the Obama administration is illegally using funding for these "tax credits" to finance another part of Obamacare. In the process, the two committees declare, the administration has knowingly "broke[n] the law and violated the Constitution," by effectively granting itself the power of the purse....