Clarence Thomas: We’re ‘Destroying’ and ‘Undermining’ Our Institutions

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PJ Media:

WASHINGTON – Alluding to the steep Obamacare premium hikes set to take effect next year in certain states, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said the official title of the healthcare law, the Affordable Care Act, seems like a “misnomer.”

 

In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate in the healthcare law as a tax. The Affordable Care Act requires every American to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS. It was recently announced that premiums under Obamacare are increasing next year by an average of 22 percent. In Arizona, for example, premiums are going up more than 100 percent.

 

Thomas made the comment in response to a question about size of the Supreme Court’s caseload. The moderator said the court hears fewer cases today compared to previous years and asked Thomas if that is a positive or negative development.

 

“Other than the healthcare, the Affordable Care Act – which seems like kind of a misnomer considering all the things that are going on – the Affordable Care Act was one of the last pieces of major legislation, one of the few pieces of major legislation,” Thomas said last week at the Heritage Foundation’s Joseph Story Distinguished Lecture.

 

“So it’s not like you have a lot of that – where the real action is, where the activity legislatively occurs, is actually in the agencies and the administrative agencies, so I don’t know if there’s that much legislation that’s actually going on that requires review,” he added.

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A wise man speaks.