Opponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act argued on Capitol Hill Tuesday that any taxes imposed by the law came to life in the wrong place.
Todd Gaziano, a senior fellow at the Pacific Legal Foundation — an organization that litigates for limits on government — said Democratic congressional leaders created the bill that became PPACA by jamming a 2,074-page Senate "amendment" into H.R. 3590, a six-page House bill that dealt with a tax credit for veterans.
The "origination clause" in the U.S. Constitution requires any laws that levy taxes to start out in the House.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
