Posted on 06/03/2011 4:02:46 AM PDT by stevie_d_64
President Obama's solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn't like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.
Neal Kumar Katyal, the acting solicitor general, made the argument under questioning before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati, which was considering an appeal by the Thomas More Law Center. (Listen to oral arguments here.) The three-judge panel, which was comprised of two Republican-appointed judges and a Democratic-appointed judge, expressed more skepticism about the government's defense of the health care law than the Fourth Circuit panel that heard the Virginia-based Obamacare challenge last month in Richmond. The Fourth Circuit panel was made up entirely of Democrats, and two of the judges were appointed by Obama himself.
During the Sixth Circuit arguments, Judge Jeffrey Sutton, who was nominated by President George W. Bush, asked Kaytal if he could name one Supreme Court case which considered the same question as the one posed by the mandate, in which Congress used the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution as a tool to compel action.
Kaytal conceded that the Supreme Court had “never been confronted directly” with the question, but cited the Heart of Atlanta Motel case as a relevant example. In that landmark 1964 civil rights case, the Court ruled that Congress could use its Commerce Clause power to bar discrimination by private businesses such as hotels and restaurants.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
How about that for attitude.
If you don’t like our orders, then just earn less.
He succinctly stated the natural results of any form of socialism and it's brothers and cousins (like Marxism, Communism, and some other isms.)
When more is given to people as they become less productive, they tend to become even less productive. Then they become shocked into relative inactivity when they reach the limit of what is given to them.
Those courageous few who instead are shocked into rebellion and revolution trigger the next phase of the cycle, when that nation begins to be restored to productivity through individual responsibility.
But I over-generalize, I'm sure.
Isn’t this “kumar” moron a former WDC “official” who had a scandal in his department before (or because of it) he was appointed by nobama? STFU, you loser putz.
No, this is the guy who went to White Castle with Harold.
I don’t see that in any of the Google results for his name. Can you flesh that out a bit more?
Dang it...I hate it when this happens...
Ok, everybody...Just comment on this thread...;-)
Forget abotu that “other” one!!! ;-)
BTW, I “did” search for this on FR, My search words even got me back to an old thread about Anna Nichol Sniths trial back in 2005...So hey, I did muh part...;-)
And no, I didn’t use the words “boob” and “head” to get back that far!!! Even though it was germane to the issue...;-)
Thanks for posting. I’m going to use this argument as an example of gov’t oppression on the People when I talk to the City Attorney in a few minutes regarding their continued harassment of me because I won’t make additions (more garage) to my property so I can have higher assessments and taxes with no proportionate increase in city “services”.
I’m a CPA. I help people hide abilities, legally, but I’m not naive, and I’ve been doing this for 36 years. There are people who do this illegally. The more resources are distributed according to abilities and needs, the more people will be motivated to hide abilities and demonstrate needs, bringing about the need for officials to determine needs and abilities, which is the end of our liberty.
Unbelievable.
It’s time for these people to go.
My main objective in life is to be left alone by authority.
Not a judge. Obama's Solicitor General.
Just once I wish one of these smarmy f**** would say something like that in front of me, just once.
In other words, don’t be productive. Join the lazy class that mooches off of productive America. One day, the vast number of moochers are going to realize there are no productive people left to support their laziness. They will have ground all productivity into the ground in the name of “fairness” and “compassion.”
it’s should be its.
Crap, I hate when I type on auto-pilot and fail to read what I’ve typed before hitting Send.
I *NEED* a 500 bedroom mansion with solid gold, silver, and platinum inlaid tiles encrusted with diamonds, rubies, and sapphires.
I *NEED* a waitstaff and a 500-car garages, complete with autocenter and engineer for engine/suspension tuning. I *NEED* 500 exotic sportcars to fill the garage.
I *NEED* at least $800 million per year to barely make my ends meet.
I *NEED* all of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy bunnies to be my personal attendents.
I *NEED* a fleet of interstellar starships armed with neato energy and kinetic weaponry for my *NEED* to reach out and conquer the galaxy.
Oh, and I *NEED* the planets Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus... plus the star systems Betelgeuse, Alpha Centauri, Canopus, and Sirius.
These are very small needs, you see... and to deny them would be to strip me of my basic human right to have my needs fufilled.
As for my abilities... well, I can wiggle my thumb for about 15 second a day, so it’s all good!
Ain’t Communism grand!
:-P
Earn less money==pay less Federal & state income taxes!!!
Is there anything more stupid than the NObama Administration???
Just think of all the wasted hours all these geniuses have spent in a college seat somewhere & how they deride those of us who did not go to college????
Sorry, I believe Obama already has Uranus...
Of course, people are not farm animals with perceived abilities for the private usage of heads of states. This communist dictatorship stuff is way in over its head. I cannot figure why the sheeple still accepts this theft and exploitation.
Yep, they want an army but not have to pay for it... it’s cool, you know, this new line of arrogant thinking of pot heads.
...and unfortunately with millions of adoring idiot robots willing to do the bidding of the pink fuehrer, they are all willing to work without a pay check from him. They still ask for their free checks from Zero, though. It’s called respect of the fuehrer and his rules, all equal under it. Could we all come to that? Please, is America gone that stupid, it believes too in 72 virgins after dying for these idiots?
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