Eat your peas.....
Eat Broccoli or pay a tax.
So government can literally do anything, seize any powers, as long as they call it a tax.
Now the media love John Roberts.
And now the media love 5 to 4 Supreme Court decisions. Rather than being divisive and controversial, the media now celebrate certain 5 to 4 decisions, when those decisions are driven by an “enlightened” justice whom we had thought leaned conservative.
Who knew the media would ever fete John Roberts this way??????
I’m trying to understand Roberts’s twisted logic, but I can’t grasp it. Essentially, what he’s saying is since congress has the power to tax the citizenry for various reasons (true), it can tax you for anything it deems reasonable (not true). But this is a forced tax/penalty on something you may not want to buy. It’s no different than demanding you buy an automobile, or you’re going to pay a tax/penalty. How Roberts can justify that “reasoning” is beyond me.
Buy solar panels or pay a tax of the same amount. Buy a Chevy Volt or pay a tax equal to the cost of the car. There are no limits to what the federal government can do following this logic.
The logic of this decision could come in handy - it’s not a $100,000 penalty for having an abortion, it’s a tax for not refusing to get one.