Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) called the CLASS Act “a Ponzi scheme of the first order” — WaPo 2009
I realize that the CBO sliding window is probably not worth shooting at for now, at least ion this context. But the use of reconciliation after so obvious a ruse of eligibility seems to me to cry out for remedy. Would a judge anywhere have a leg to stand on to say that the law is invalid because (despite the accession of Congress at the time) the ex-post facto discovery of the farcical accounting in the CLASS Act puts the event of its passage in a new light?
I say yes, that is, ObamaCare is already not a valid law. The Supreme Court is now struggling over the law’s epitaph, not its fate.