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To: tcrlaf; All
Obamacare is basicly a TAX, and it is not a violation of the government’s ability to tax.

Thank you for posting tcrlaf. And speaking of the Obamacare tax, did you notice the following two excerpts from Gibbons v. Ogden which were posted earlier in this thread?

"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress (emphases added)." --Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

Since Justice Roberts referenced Gibbons v. Ogden in the Obamacare decision, the question is how did Roberts miss seeing that Justice Marshall had previously officially clarified the following? Not only is healthcare a state power issue, such issues protected by the 10th Amendment, but Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues.

Note that state power issues are essentially any issue, such as healthcare, which Congress has no authority to address under its constitutional Section 8, Article I-limited powers.

45 posted on 06/20/2013 5:14:09 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10
Since Justice Roberts referenced Gibbons v. Ogden in the Obamacare decision, the question is how did Roberts miss seeing that Justice Marshall had previously officially clarified the following?

He didn't miss it, he merely found what in that case supported his position while discounting all else.

54 posted on 06/21/2013 7:26:49 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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