Analyzed into an thousand 15 there will be an increase in rural areas. Analyze in 2015, there will be an increase in verbal areas. But it is much more of a problem in rural areas. Thank you. We only have about five minutes left, so i would ask if you can pull out the blue evaluation form and start filling it up. To write. Is the federal government wants to offer encourage employers to offer Health Insurance to employees, why would include the cadillac tax under the aca . What is the harm of offering coverage exceeding 20 20,500 per family . Employment coverage is also benefited from beneficial tax treatment in the sense that employers pay toward coverage on behalf of workers and it is not included in worker income and the amount that workers pay through payroll deductions. That reduces their taxable income. The concern is that because one dollar of Health Insurance is not subject to taxes and dollar wages is, workers prefer Health Insurance over wages to some degree or increases in com
The federalism values are promoted by our interpretation because if that is, indeed, what a state thought, if a state really would have preferred that not to have the State Government participate in the implementation of this act, for reasons that your honor identified, the structure of the act that congress put in place and that were advocating for today fully vindicates that concern. They can decide not to participate without having any adverse consequences visited upon the citizens of the state. And thats why our reading is the profederalism reading. Its their reading that seems to me that is the antifederalism reading, and thats a powerful reason to reject it. And if i could go to the second statutory point, which is related to what were talking about, Justice Kennedy, which is section 1321, says that this statute is designed to afford state flexibility. State flexibility. It would be an orwellian sense of the word flexibility to use it in the manner that petitioners say the statut
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
Preview on this weekss action in the senate. We turn to neil, a frequent guest at the washington journal joining us. Good morning to you. John i want to talk about the iran deal that is going on and the bill that was expected to be on the floor this week in the senate and then got pulled. What is going on there . Niels what has happened with the floor schedule was we had anticipated that on tuesday, the senate would attempt to hold a vote on picking up a measure sponsored by the Foreign Relations chairman bob corker of tennessee that would require the administration to send any sort of agreement that may be reached with the iranians over their Nuclear Program to capitol hill for a sixtyday period to allow congress to weigh in on any sort of agreement. What happened was, a number of Democratic Senators who had supported the legislation indicated to the majority leader in the senate that they would not vote for their own bill until after a march 24 deadline for some sort of resolution in
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