I just do not understand how the SCOTUS got this SO wrong!
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Nor do I.
I will tell you one thing. I will not pay this tax. I am a healthy 50 yo that hasn’t been to a doctor in well over 25 years. I don’t have insurance and will pay for whatever services I may end up needing. The last time I went to the hospital was to get some glass removed from my scalp as the result of a fight I got into with some thug that thought he could get away with stealing stuff from where I worked.
I posted this on a different thread not long ago:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3067927/posts?page=7#7
This train wreck is a slow motion event.
I don’t think it will be stopped.
When thousands of people that never realized they have been forced into “paying” for something that they don’t need or want, we may get one person that gets the right lawyer that finds the right judge in the right jurisdiction that advances a case back to the supreme court.
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As a “tax” it should get shot down.
As Zerocare begins to encounter any number of real world scenarios, it should quickly be determined that it is hopelessly unmanageable.
If I was a healthy young, single non-smoker from Kansas last year, and the next year I got married, moved to NY, started smoking got divorced in Vegas, quit smoking all within that year. Can they price that out for me ?
Harmful behavior that is excluded from this tax are endless.
Are those that engage in demonstrably harmful sexual activities going to pay more ?
What if I eat a dozen Twinkies a day, but only smoke when I’m drunk.
Get more than one speeding ticket ?
Run with scissors ?
Play sports ?
Own a Gun ?
Have a bathroom ?
All of these activities are supposedly priced in, as they have been priced in by insurance actuaries for years.
What do you think will happen when the Government attempts this ?
Are they going to ask, on your tax return, if you are in a gang ?
I think this entire ill-conceived adventure expected private, corporate subsidized health plans to remain unchanged.
This is and will bring a new meaning to “FUBAR”
They’ll have to use the National Guard to make gangbangers buy insurance.
It’s actually going to be funny when one of those “navigators” drives into the hood. “Hey, man! He says he’s from the government and he’s selling obamacare!”
“Kill him anyway!”