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Will the courts enforce the Origination Clause against Obamacare?

December 05, 2012 | By TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto writes that our challenge to Obamacare is unlikely to succeed. Assuming that Obamacare’s monetary exaction for not buying insurance is a tax, as the Supreme Court called it in its June opinion, still not all taxes are “bills for raising revenue,” which the Constitution requires to be g ...