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Could Congress Require Americans to Buy a House?


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2012 Jun 14, 1:26am   1,891 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   Tenpoundbass   2012 Jun 14, 1:46am  

"Hey you don't want to piss off the Broccoli people they don't screw around" - Herbert Walker Bush

2   Paralithodes   2012 Jun 16, 5:17am  

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   2012 Jun 16, 9:17am  

Perhaps the mandate will be that the homes be martian condos - heck anyone can afford one of those.

Commute's a bitch though.

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