{"id":14929,"date":"2011-08-12T12:13:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T19:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14929"},"modified":"2011-08-12T12:15:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T19:15:15","slug":"this-economic-mandate-represents-a-wholly-novel-and-potentially-unbounded-assertion-of-congressional-authority-the-ability-to-compel-americans-to-purchase-an-expensive-health-insurance-product-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14929\/this-economic-mandate-represents-a-wholly-novel-and-potentially-unbounded-assertion-of-congressional-authority-the-ability-to-compel-americans-to-purchase-an-expensive-health-insurance-product-they\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This economic mandate represents a wholly novel and potentially unbounded assertion of congressional authority: The ability to compel Americans to purchase an expensive health insurance product they have elected not to buy, and to make them re-purchase that insurance product every month for their entire lives.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/08\/12\/us-usa-healthcare-idUSTRE77B4J320110812\" target=\"_blank\">Dang<\/a>. There goes the NAR&#8217;s chance to force every American to buy three or four more houses, thus to save the starving real estate brokers.<\/p>\n<p>As President Obama himself has noted, there is something wrong with our politics when perfectly reliable campaign donors cannot despoil the taxpayers at will, without judicial interference&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dang. There goes the NAR&#8217;s chance to force every American to buy three or four more houses, thus to save the starving real estate brokers. As President Obama himself has noted, there is something wrong with our politics when perfectly reliable campaign donors cannot despoil the taxpayers at will, without judicial interference&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-egoism-in-action","8":"category-group-therapy","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15383,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15383\/lower-va-funding-fees-as-of-november-18-2011-attract-year-end-veteran-buyers\/","url_meta":{"origin":14929,"position":0},"title":"Lower VA funding fees, as of November 18, 2011, attract year-end veteran buyers","author":"Brian Brady","date":"November 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"N.B:\u00a0 On the day before I published this, HR 674 passed, reverting the funding fee amounts to the \"old\" levels.\u00a0 It was updated in VA Circular 26-11-19, published November 22, 2011.\u00a0 The \"new\" lower funding fee schedule was in effect for three days, from Nov 18-21.\u00a0 Sorry for the confusion.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lending&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lending","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/lending\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2512,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2512\/tuition-is-expensive-at-the-school-of-hard-knocks\/","url_meta":{"origin":14929,"position":1},"title":"Tuition Is Expensive At The School Of Hard Knocks","author":"Doug Quance","date":"January 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Another Episode Of \"It Doesn't Pay To Be A Cheap Bastard\" In times like these, real estate investors often search for the corners to be cut. 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