Punchline: Obama’s solicitor general, defending the national health care law, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.
“If you don’t like the mandate, just earn less money>”
Apparently, there’s a provision in the health care law that allows people to avoid the mandate: the minimum coverage provision only kicks in after people have earned a minimum amount of income.
… and, people can choose to earn less and, thus, avoid the mandate.
It’s a matter of choice.
The judge’s response: “That wasn’t in a single speech given in Congress about this…the idea that the solution if you don’t like it is make a little less money.”
Ken’s Take: You just can’t make this stuff up …
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Source: Washington Examiner
The Homa Files 
June 14, 2011 at 10:03 am |
THAT’S a major policy goal here: remove incentives for earning income and create incentives to look to the government for support.