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<blockquote data-quote="poolerboy0077" data-source="post: 65271142" data-attributes="member: 332455"><p>Well that's because it's an historical accident in this country that healthcare is attached to employers. We've been, up till recently, the only advanced industrialized nation that permits large numbers of its people to languish without health insurance. But I think this is beside the point. This issue would persist even without government giving companies the option to either pay a tax or provide certain care to employees because the deeper principle, it seems, is about the scope of religious liberty in society. As Justice Sotomayor asked, "[W]e have a tax code that applies to everybody, but we have a million exemptions. Does the creation of the exemption relieve me from paying taxes when I have a sincere religious belief that taxes are immoral?" The same principle applies to the heated issue of businesses and their ability to associate with whomever they wish and provide services that go against their religious conscience, like baking cakes for certain weddings. Methinks this was just a matter of time before it reached the courts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="poolerboy0077, post: 65271142, member: 332455"] Well that's because it's an historical accident in this country that healthcare is attached to employers. We've been, up till recently, the only advanced industrialized nation that permits large numbers of its people to languish without health insurance. But I think this is beside the point. This issue would persist even without government giving companies the option to either pay a tax or provide certain care to employees because the deeper principle, it seems, is about the scope of religious liberty in society. As Justice Sotomayor asked, "[W]e have a tax code that applies to everybody, but we have a million exemptions. Does the creation of the exemption relieve me from paying taxes when I have a sincere religious belief that taxes are immoral?" The same principle applies to the heated issue of businesses and their ability to associate with whomever they wish and provide services that go against their religious conscience, like baking cakes for certain weddings. Methinks this was just a matter of time before it reached the courts. [/QUOTE]
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