Paxton Recoups $839 Million in Multi-State Obamacare Tax Lawsuit Including $305 Million for Texas Taxpayers

Were proud to return this illegally collected money to the people of Texas" Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas  Obamacare is unconstitutional plain and simple. We all know that the feds cannot tax the states and were proud to return this illegally collected money to the people of Texas" said Attorney General Ken Paxton earlier today commending a U.S. District Court decision ordering the Internal Revenue Service to repay Texas and five other states more than $839 million because of an unlawful Obamacare tax on state Medicaid programs. Of that total amount Texas stands to be repaid $304730608. In October 2015 Attorney General Paxton led a multistate lawsuit against the federal government over the Obama-era regulation that threatened to choke off Medicaid funds for the health needs of millions of Texas citizens unless Texas taxpayers paid a portion of the Health Insurance Providers Fee to help fund Obamacare. The courts decision also means that five other states stand to be repaid Obamacare fees by the IRS:

1. Indiana $94801483
2. Kansas $142121776
3. Louisiana $172493095
4. Nebraska $36238918 and
5. Wisconsin $88938850

Texas and Wisconsin will argue at a hearing on September 5th that Obamacare as amended by the recent tax bill is unconstitutional in its entirety.

• View a copy of the ruling here: https://bit.ly/2Bz1U6Z