Guest Post: Second Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski
Jeff For Banks
JULY 9, 2012
'Second Quarter Surprises We received two big surprises at the end of the second quarter — one from Washington and one from an ocean away. On June 28th, the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act as constitutional, calling penalties on individuals for failing to purchase health insurance a “tax.” This decision sets in motion a series of steps to implement the law over the next few years along with the estimated $813 billion in taxes and levies over the next ten years.
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