Your ♡bamaCare!!! Fail of the Day

“When I sign a bill into law, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
(AP photo)

Actually, it’s a great big win — for the Arbitrary State. Jonathan Adler has the story:

In a series of posts at “Notice & Comment,” the blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation, Professor Andy Grewal documents two additional cases in which the IRS has rewritten the PPACA’s tax credit eligibility requirements so as to expand eligibility beyond what Congress authorized. Combined with other instances of the IRS and HHS disregarding the PPACA’s plain text, it appears the federal government has little regard for what the PPACA actually says.

In his first two posts, Professor Grewall explains how IRS regulations disregard the statutory text so as to extend tax credit eligibility to some low-income aliens not lawfully residing in the U.S. In this way, the IRS regulation “casts a wider net than the statute” by expanding the number of people eligible for tax credits. Yet the IRS never provided any rationale for this change. Indeed, if one had just read the IRS explanation for what its regulations accomplish — as opposed to the regulations themselves — one would not even be aware of what the IRS did.

The IRS, with no authorization from Congress, is using your tax dollars to subsidize insurance purchases to illegal aliens.

Lawbreakers giving your money to lawbreakers, in other words.

There ought to be firings (or jail sentences) for the former and deportations for the latter. Instead, promotions and bonuses for the former and Democrat voter registrations for the latter seems more likely.

Or as another arbitrary ruler once put it, “L’Etat c’est Moi.”