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Michele Bachmann: Well, remember that the tax to express your religious beliefs is $36,500 per employee. The tax is $2,000 per employee if…

On the recordMarch 25, 2014
Well, remember that the tax to express your religious beliefs is $36,500 per employee. The tax is $2,000 per employee if you decide you are not going to purchase health insurance, so it is extremely expensive. I think the gentleman is raising an excellent point because to where do the people of this country repair? If we have a President who many believe is no longer following the Constitution of the United States under article II with the limitations of power or if we look at the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court justices themselves are not rendering opinions that are within the Constitution of the United States, what do the people do? The Constitution provides for impeachment for justices. There is impeachment provided for the President of the United States. That is an option, but those are options of last resort. I think what we are trying to do is appeal to the justices, to think of the people, think of the oath they took to the Constitution. Don't consider that, every time you meet in the Supreme Court, that you are in a new open constitutional convention. It isn't a constitutional convention where the justices have a free pen and a phone, so to speak, and can rewrite the Constitution. We are appealing to the justices to limit themselves under the Constitution and observe that the First Amendment has been ironclad since James Madison wrote it.…
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Michele Bachmann
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Mar 25, 2014

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