Left panic stricken as Scalia says Obamacare individual mandate Constitutionally "not proper"

Coach is Right ^ | 3/28/2012 | Doug Book

[Graewoulf]

A mandate is merely a dictate. Thus, if we are dictated to, do we then live under a Dictatorship?

If our freedom of choice is taken from us by the dictates of a hostile Federal government, then what Liberty do we have left?

[Sgt_Schultze]

"The construction applied... to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate to Congress a power "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States," and "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by the Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof," goes to the destruction of all limits prescribed to [the General Government's] power by the Constitution... Words meant by the instrument to be subsidiary only to the execution of limited powers ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument."

--Thomas Jefferson: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. ME 17:385

[treetopsandroofs]

“FreeAtlanta wrote:
I wonder if the economy will take off, if the court strikes this down? How soon will companies start hiring like crazy?”

Companies are likely to already know Hussein doesn’t like to be told no, and be worried how he will “double down” in response to this level of a reprimand on his agenda.

[Heart of Georgia]

“I’ll bet there’s some petition underway already asking for the messiah to bypass/ignore the SCOTUS.”

I believe they’ll try hard to ignore a ruling against them, maybe with an EO, if possible. Not hard to imagine how that would read.

[Secret Agent Man]

They have to knock the whole thing down. No severability clause in the act. Further they admitted it can’t work without the mandate so why keep any of it?