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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles by humanrebar on Thursday March 02, 2017 @07:19AM (#13773516)
But the ACA mandate was supposed to be a mandate or a penalty, not a tax. The Supreme Court ruled that it looked like a tax and quacked like a tax, so it's legal as a tax.

Why can't the same principals be applied here? That the pitch and language of a rule aren't important, just the implementation.

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Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles by paulddraper on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:51AM (#13775620)
100% agree. It doesn't matter whether Obama intended it to be a tax, or a mandate, or a duck. It was a tax because it was.

It doesn't matter what Trump thinks about the order. It's legality is the same no matter who signed it.

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