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New Article on What “Taxes” Are (And Aren’t) Under the Constitution, and the Implications for Obamacare 0
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court
- March 27, 2016
Was the Supreme Court right to call Obamacare’s insurance penalty a “tax?”
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The Constitution's Financial Terms 0
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court, Uncategorized
- October 28, 2015
Note: This was originally a four-part series published at the leading constitutional law website, “The Volokh Conspiracy,” which is affiliated with the Washington Post. This succession of four parts discusses such questions as why the Supreme Court was wrong to characterize the Obamacare insurance penalty as a “tax,” why the apportionment requirement was adopted and
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What is an “Excise?”0
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court, Uncategorized
- January 25, 2015
Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution reads as follows: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the Common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United
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