Come to take your breath you will never come back to life. I think they call this shooting the messenger but it is still very scary because Corporate America is the target all the way down to entrylevel employees our game. A group that targets social media i hope twitter sticks to its guns. So the former defense undersecretary what you think of this . To make it is incredible threat and they have to respond appropriately but they must not allow these guys to tweet. They cannot bin the Business Practices these pokes the alliance . They are jerks they need to be disciplined out of the game and this is the field they have to do so they have to protect their people maybe they get armed bodyguards or more but the point is they must not give bin is a question of free speech. Neil i dont think there is any doubt id think it is a matter of time but i do we cower and let them do whatever they want in the meantime . No. Whether facebook or the congress that makes them the winner. These people ar
Do that way and one of the things i wrote down that wasnt in my campaign, but as i took office, my major job was to spend money. Not to save money. But to spend money, but to spend it in the right way. And then as i analyzed and had when i was on the counsel, the very negative funding for us is property tax. If you raise property tax they want to hang you by the nearest tree. If theres not a tree, theyll just run over you with their pick up truck either way. But you dont mess with property tax, so i got our city out of the property tax business. We fund our city basically by two sources. Sales tax and eweutility franchise and when you do that, people dont care where you spend money. As long as you dont raise their taxes, they are fine and we raise the taxes by good, Economic Growth that ill talk about in a minute and so, that is where we have come from and that is a that has allowed me to do that in that way. Philosophically for my goals my overarching goal or principle is if it doesnt
Only 16 states run their own exchanges. The federal government runs extend his for the remaining 34 states that opted out of setting up their own. The court is expected to rule on the case before the end of the term in june. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Well hear arguments this morning in case 14114, king v. Burwell. Mr. Carvin. Mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court, this is a straightforward case of statutory construction where the plain language of the statute dictates the result. Mr. Carvin, will you please back up, because before we get to a question of statutory construction, as you know, each plaintiff, or at least one plaintiff, has to have a concrete stake in these questions. They cant put them as ideological questions. And we have as four plaintiffs. As to two of them, there is a declaration stating i am not eligible for Health Insurance from the government, but theres a question of whether they are veterans eligible for coverage as veterans. Yes. One of those is m
Companies when these subsidies are available. And you have states. So you have to put it in 36b. So the argument, i guess, the government is making is what you should have done is put half of it in 36b and half it in 1321 which, of course, would have confused everybody. 36b would say, exchanges period. Then youd go to 1321 and say when we said exchanges in 36b, we meant established by the state. Mr. Carvin, if i were a state official and i was trying to decide whether my state should establish an exchange, and i wanted to know whether individuals who enrolled in a plan on my possible stateestablished exchange would get a credit, where would i look . Exactly. The basic thesis here is these exchanges dont work without subsidies. Youve read 1311. Youve read 1321. Now youre going to go find out where the subsidies are. Thats 36b. Theyre hypothesizing state i think not, mr. Carvin. I mean, i think the place i would look to find out about my choices is in the provision of the statute that ta
Legislature can do, which Means Congress can also give this power to the commission. The only difference between my friends scenario and mine is that in my friends scenario the state legislature would retain the authority to override what the commission has done but that is always the consequence of state legislation over federal legislation. Its not something that a state legislature can override and it is simply a consequence of congress superseding authority and congress authority under the elections clause. Scalia the second clause is being used to revise the first clause. That is what we are talking about. The second clause can congress can do something on its own. But can congress use the second clause to revise what the first clause says . Feigin one thing i want to emphasize is i think the court settle this issue in hildebrandt when it said it was simply doing something that the constitution expressly gave the right to do. I dont think the right way to think about this is congr