If the Senate in the future can take any bill and strike all of its contents and raise taxes as high as the Affordable Care Act has done--in some cases the people suggested it is the highest tax increase in history--if they can do that, then the Origination Clause, my friends, is a dead letter.
Franks argues that the Senate's actions undermine the Origination Clause of the Constitution.
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