Doesn’t the Constitution require tax bills to originate in the House?

by ~ The Rebel ~ Posted 2012/06/29 16:14:49

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Just a quickie post to debunk an argument that we’re already seeing in threads and e-mails: Namely, doesn’t Article I, section 7 of the Constitution say that all bills that raise revenue must originate in the House? And didn’t ObamaCare pass the Senate before it passed the House? And doesn’t that in turn mean that our nifty new health care “tax” was passed according to unconstitutional procedures?

The bill that passed the Senate wasn’t technically a Senate bill. Reid took a bill that had already passed the House, stripped out the provisions to turn it into a “shell bill,” and then inserted the text of ObamaCare to get around this requirement.

ACE 2012/06/29 18:23:58

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yes it does

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Tennessean 2012/06/29 16:37:50

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True, all Bills for raising revenue must originate in the House.

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U-Dog 2012/06/29 16:24:11

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Gee, thanks for blowing the wind out of that sail LOL.-)

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