Today, Oklahoma and five other states filed legal briefs in support of a legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act scheduled to be heard in the Supreme Court in March. The IRS ignored the plain language of the Affordable Care Act and essentially rewrote the law to hand out illegal subsidies in all 50 states. That’s not what the language of the ACA says and not what Congress intended when it gave states the power to decide whether to set up their own state-based exchanges. Executive agencies like the IRS cannot rewrite laws with which they may disagree. As a collection of states, we support the ACA challenge that will be decided by the Supreme Court and are hopeful a ruling in our favor will ensure the IRS and other executive agencies are held accountable to enforce the laws as written by Congress.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:40:04 +0000
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