The Department of Justice didn’t get their way when a federal judge decided not to throw out a case against Obamacare. While U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman denied a temporary injunction that would have prohibited the IRS from issuing Obamacare subsidies to states that opted out of setting up their own exchanges, he will allow the lawsuit to proceed. The subsidies will be used to entice people to enroll through an Obamacare exchange. That is, if they can get through to the website in the first place.
We hear liberals drone on all the time about how Obamacare is the “law of the land,” and that tea partiers need to get over it, because Obama was elected and re-elected on the issue of Obamacare, and that it was passed by the Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court.
Well, if it’s the “law of the land,” then why does the Obama administration not have to follow it? There are currently 36 states which decided not to set up their own exchanges. Only 14 have done so. According to this “law of the land,” the IRS is not allowed to pay out subsidies to those 36 states. They can only issue subsidies to the 14. These subsidies are in violation of section 1311 of the [un]Affordable Care Act:
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