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Could Congress Require Americans to Buy a House?

By taketheplunge   Follow   Thu, 14 Jun 2012, 8:26am   574 views   3 comments
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If the Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare") is found constitutional, could Congress require Americans to buy a house?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/business/how-broccoli-became-a-symbol-in-the-health-care-debate.html?hpw

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1. CaptainShuddup Follow Befriend (1) 294 threads 5,232 comments

   1   8:46am Thu 14 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   "Hey you don't want to piss off the Broccoli people they don't screw around" - Herbert Walker Bush

2. Paralithodes Follow Befriend 1 threads 530 comments

   2   12:17pm Sat 16 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   Why not? Obama himself said that if there were a mandate that everyone needed to buy insurance, he could mandate that everyone buy a house.... "She mandates that everybody buy health care" ... "She'd have the government force every individual to buy insurance and I don't have such a mandate because I don't think the problem is that people don't want health insurance, it's that they can't afford it." ... "Well, if things were that easy, I could mandate everybody to buy a house, and that would solve the problem of homelessness. It doesn't." - Senator Obama, 2008

3. New Renter Follow Befriend (3) 14 threads 2,446 comments San Jose, CA Premium

   3   4:17pm Sat 16 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Protected   Perhaps the mandate will be that the homes be martian condos - heck anyone can afford one of those. Commute's a bitch though.