Posted on 03/27/2012 12:09:57 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Opponents of the individual mandate provision of President Obama's health care law contend that if the government can force you to buy health insurance, its powers of compulsion are virtually unlimited. Chief Justice John Roberts wonders what else Washington can force citizens to buy in this exchange:
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Well, the same, it seems to me, would be true say for the market in emergency services: police, fire, ambulance, roadside assistance, whatever. You don't know when you're going to need it; you're not sure that you will. But the same is true for health care. You don't know if you're going to need a heart transplant or if you ever will. So there is a market there. To -- in some extent, we all participate in it. So can the government require you to buy a cell phone because that would facilitate responding when you need emergency services? You can just dial 911 no matter where you are?
GENERAL VERRILLI: No, Mr. Chief Justice. think that's different. It's -- We -- I don't think we think of that as a market. This is a market. This is market regulation. And in addition, you have a situation in this market not only where people enter involuntarily as to when they enter and won't be able to control what they need when they enter but when they --
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No, but the government gives them away if you get any form of welfare....
I would ask can the government force you to buy cell phones for yourself and for others.
Two best parts of Bush legacy — Roberts and Alito.
Question to Justice Roberts:
Can the government force you to buy food, by denying you the right to grow your own?
Roberts and other members of the court recognize council’s arguments as simply niggardly.
What the hell is this "market" baloney and what does it have to do with the question asked: Can the government force you to buy a cell phone... or a toaster (you need food) or a windmill (we all have to participate to make the 'green energy' market effective)
CHILDBIRTH IS.
The government is arguing that if you don't buy health insurance, you MAY burden the state with unpaid healthcare costs down the road.
But if you "choose" to have a child, the government will easily be able to make the case that you will be adding to the costs of society for infrastructure, for trash collection, for the CO2 that your child will breathe out.
Thus, the government should be able to have a say in who gives birth, how many times, and which ones.
What the hell is this "market" baloney and what does it have to do with the question asked: Can the government force you to buy a cell phone... or a toaster (you need food) or a windmill (we all have to participate to make the 'green energy' market effective)
Next the government will force us to buy Chevy Volts
They'll do it as they are too lazy to use the dictionary to find the actual meaning of the word.
These justices sounded like Rush Limbaugh with the questions they were asking. That Solicitor General is gonna need a few months in therapy.
With 154 million workers and 5.2 million pregnancies a year....
$1 a month from each of the workers in the abortion care program will generate $360 a year per pregnancy... Abortions cost $350, at the end of the day enough to terminate every pregnancy in the coverage group.
Sorry but you are behind a few chapters on this story, we already are paying for Chevy Volts, about 100 Billion worth when we bailed out GM.
There was some speculation earlier that this decision could overturn WvF...
That piece of crap needs slapped down, or the leftists WILL tax you on your backyard garden, if only to keep you from being independent.
“I don’t care what the dictionary says it means. The guy who said it is white, so he’s a racist!”
GENERAL VERRILLI: No, Mr. Chief Justice....I don't think we think of that as a market.
Verizon, AT&T Wireless, Sprint, etc. all better immediatly file suits in federal court stating they no longer should be governed by federal regulation, since cell phone service isn't, by the government's admission in open court, a "market," and therefore is not subject to the interstate commerce clause of the US Constitution.
It's already illegal to collect rainwater on your own property in certain states.
They are taking our money and using it to give out free cellphones and free high speed internet by levying taxes on providers to fund free stuff for people.
Nice question by Roberts. It’s very much on point, despite the SG’s reply.
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