It matters not what Mike’s position is on any issue is. He said what he said and it is manifestly wrong.
Neither the Pretender in Chief, the Crooks in Congress, or the Supreme Court gets to tell fellow citizens that we are REQUIRED to purchase something as a prerequisite to being alive or to get access to services of doctor (another fellow citizen).
Call it whatever you want, a Tax or a Fee, the purpose is, on the very face of it, unconstitutional. That is of course, if the Constitution actually really means anything. Which is really what the Supreme Court will be deciding.
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tonyinv and Just A Nobody have have an understandable 'sentiment' but feelings alone will not suffice for any of us to gain the gift of freedom that all of us deserve to inherit from our individual American origins. I will reveal my own hardcore sentiment below.
tonyinv has especially drawn out the key battle tactic that may and very likely will overcome our opposition to Obamacare, to wit:
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
From 'whatever source derived' indeed. This amendment is different from all others in that it is designed specifically to expand the powers of central government. Since its ratification in February 1913, the United States of America has experienced a Trojan Horse of federal government into their lives. At first the new forms of taxation were small and distant but over many decades the tax code that rests on the foundation of the 16th Amendment has grown into an agressive cancer that no tax reform can cure or prevent it from metastacizing (there have been five major tax reforms since 1913; they have all failed).
My sentiment:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2586740/posts?page=46#46
Whatever sentiment we hold, it will serve only to unite us to those of similar sentiment. Many of us will seek our 'Inner Robespierre' but a revolution, violent or peaceful, will need the following acts to return to us our historical inheritance: