[A Navy Vet]

It's over. It's done. Our Constitutional Republic has died. Elections will mean nothing. THE last hope is:

STATES' RIGHTS! Ignore my position at your peril.

[saintgermaine]

Thank a socialist-liberal who helped to push this through and you thought this could never happen, ha,the country of the free? Orwell was only off by 26 years.....

[karatemom]

Oh just DUCKY!!!
Well, in that case, I want my gov’t issued chef to prepare all my meals, and my gov’t issued personal trainer to work me out. I need my free masseuse because stress is bad for the body and can cause me to gain weight. I simply cannot be expected to do this on my own.

[livius]

I was in East Berlin the year before the Wall came down. I saw what constant monitoring and micro-management did to people. It is not pretty. The gray, the drab, the despair was everywhere.

Very well put. I already have this sense of some presence, "the government," hovering right behind me, or maybe in the back of my head somewhere, not quite controlling yet, but preparing to do so...and I think this sensation ultimately saps the energy and hope of citizens and will make us like the passive, simultaneously scared and hostile citizens of the Soviet countries in no time at all.

[RayChuang88]

This is why the Democrats will likely get routed in the November 2010 elections despite the sanguine pronouncements from the Democratic National Committee and their lapdogs in the MSM.

If the Republicans retake Congress, watch for a LOT of major bills of reform to be introduced, including something that Congress needs to tackle right now: income tax reform. When the current system is 70,000-plus pages of undecipherable mess, costs over US$300 BILLION per year in compliance costs, and possibly drove over US$14 TRILLION in American-owned liquid assets to offshore financial centers beyond US borders as an income tax dodge, something needs to be done, in my humble opinion! Imagine if we can cut the cost of compliance to less than 1/3 of the current system and bring back most of that US$14 TRILLION back to the US financial system--our economy would immediately take off like a missile.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

As we feared

[Diogenesis]

[Vaduz]

Health Care Bill mandates Starting on January 1st in 2012 that you must report to camp see master list for your stat camp number.

[Vinnie]

The democrats warned us that Geo. Bush and the repubs would do this, spy on our lives.

Wait a minute !

[R. Scott]

… will require coin and bullion dealers to report to the Internal Revenue Service all gold and silver coin purchases and sales greater than $600.

$600 isn’t much - ½ ounce of gold.

[sergeantdave]

Do federal bureaucrats get a burial plan included in their benefits?

[Bobalu]

I foresee private companies that will take 1oz coins
and re melt and strike them into 1/10 oz bullion coins :-)

Then you can buy/sell beneath the 600.00 point easily.

If this turns out to be true then the premium for 1oz
gold eagles will probably drop?? Who wants a denomination
that large if it brings the feds into your business!

[NewJerseyJoe]

P4L

[jiggyboy]

Goldbug ping

"the Health Care Bill mandates, according to Numismaster.com, Starting on January 1st in 2012, S federal law will require coin and bullion dealers to report to the Internal Revenue Service all gold and silver coin purchases and sales greater than $600. No that is not an error, they tacked the gold coin tracking regulations into the health bill."

(The article has typos all over the place. I found numismaster.com but didn't spend a lot of time looking for the article. But I have seen this discussed in other goldbug threads.

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[Gondring]

Starting on January 1st in 2012, S federal law will require coin and bullion dealers to report to the Internal Revenue Service all gold and silver coin purchases and sales greater than $600. No that is not an error, they tacked the gold coin tracking regulations into the health bill. They are just tacking stuff on wherever they can

I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see where this applies just to coins.

[bert]

The solution is pretty simple..... slaughter the swine and make sausage. The ham from a more equal pig is tasty

[opentalk]

They were also collecting GPS data in the census. The bills use large amounts of our tax dollars to monitor us.

[verity]

I doubt if you can specifically reference those portions of the law which support the blog's contentions. Nevertheless, you have elicited a response from the knee jerk crowd. lol

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

The majority of the Lemmings still think that this was a “good” bill because Obama said so and it finally put an end to those greedy Wall Street executives stealing from everybody and causing the economy to go bad.

And like Healthscare, they demonized the Insurance companies, saying they were overcharging and causing the cost of medical to be much higher than it should be.

And so goes the steady and rapid decline of America. And they took it over in the dead of night when everyone was asleep, without firing a shot. When the people woke up wondering what had happened, the media told them that something wonderful had been done for them. Then they went back to bed because all their worries have been taken away by the Government.

[GailA]

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