"If the method is mandating something to teachers and having teachers mandate to kids, that is less than ideal," said Lucy Calkins, an education professor at Columbia University Teachers College, though she added that it was unlikely that New York would take such a regimented approach.
It now falls to Obama, as it did to Bill Clinton in 1993, to pursue a realist's agenda while somehow restraining the forces in his own party — powerful liberal committee chairmen, sprawling interest groups — who would overreach, attempting to make of the party's mandate something that it is not.
Facebook doesn't make any of these trainings mandatory, because if you mandate something, Williams said, you're not going to see real change implemented.
It's the individual mandate, something already approved by the Supreme Court three years ago.
Business groups have opposed legislation requiring paid sick days, calling them expensive employer mandates for something workers and their bosses can usually work out.
It's true that federal mandates set something of a binding constraint.
Instead, Congress should pair repeal of Obamacare's onerous and cost-inflating mandates with something like the Health Care Choices Proposal, which would distribute the money currently spent on Obamacare subsidies and Medicaid expansion as block grants to the states.
10.39am: Chief Justice John Roberts uttered a line on Monday that's drawing attention from SCOTUS-watchers, as it could be perceived as him "tipping his hand" on the individual mandate: "The idea that the mandate is something separate from whether you want to call it a penalty or tax just doesn't seem to make much sense".
And it means that an individual mandate — or something much like it — is inevitable.
But the idea that the mandate is something separate from whether you want to call it a penalty or tax just doesn't seem to make much sense.
