Posted on 06/28/2012 7:29:46 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
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There is no reason that a law could not be passed now that says
“you must buy 5 pounds of broccoli per month or pay a $100 fine”
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
It's way past time for a tax revolt in this country. Refuse to file, refuse to pay and refuse to become slaves!
Come and take it assholes!
No chance of that.
I agree.
The ACA should never, never have been passed. The SCOTUS ruling will have the (un) intended consequence of punting the whole issue back to the legislature for repeal.
Talk about a gift for the Tea Party.
Did the mandate to provide abortions, etc. fail then. I’m trying to understand this.
All good points.
I see a flaw in your statement.
I know Boehner didn’t spike the ball, but did he cry?
If he doesn’t act forcefully today toward this usurpation of freedom, someone needs to make him do much more than cry. Tar and feathers will make you scream.
**You don’t have to accept it, you just have to pay for it.
How is that constitutional?**
Taxation without representation?
Rings a bell, doesn’t it? How our country was founded in the first place.
There aren’t enough obscenities in the English language to express how I feel right now.
I knew he was no good when he was first appointed and his son behaved do badly in public. It showed he had no discipline in his home.
They ruled that the individual mandate requiring us all to “buy” insurance is unconstitutional...and that should be the end of it. Back to Congress to change, fix it, or shelve the whole thing.
But, no. They then (it sounds like) unilaterally and unconstitutionally took it upon themselves to basically re-write the legislation and call that purchase mandate a tax and then say “now it is ok, proceed.”
How can the US SUPREME COURT WRITE ANY LEGISLATION?
Answer: They can’t. It would be unconstitutional.
The Congress writes laws. So with what the legislation clearly called a mandate to buy ruled unconstititonal, it should go back to congress to alter it into a tax...WHICH WOULD NEVER PASS THE CONGRESS.
I am shocked and severely disappointed in Roberts. They are (if this interpretation is correct) writing legislation from the bench which is not within their power to do.
I guess we’ll see what it all means, but that’s how I am reading it now and it is very disappointing if that is correct.
AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
http://www.jeffherad.com/crossroads.htm
MSNBC just called it “the Roberts Supreme Court”.
Yep - he’s clearly their best friend now.....he’ll be called “courageous”, “principled”, a”brilliant jurist”...
So, why did he drink the Kool-aid? Was his family threatened? Or do they have something on him?
The lawsuits against this are going to fly by the millions. It won’t be the Catholic Church fighting this alone.
Now it’s everyone!
The language and the smirk tell you what this was about all along, and even 0bama alluded to it long ago.
It’s reparations. 0bama said that he didn’t favor a reparations payment, but instead preferred implementing perpetual social programs that achieved more wealth transfer in perpetuity, all the while keeping the race-grievance industry alive.
“The ruling also hands Obama a campaign-season....”
No it doesn’t. Too many folks were/are against Obamacare. I would like to think he will have even less backing.
I expected OB/BS not to lose this one. It was just a gut feeling.
It still makes me very, very sad.
But wait until my hero, Arpaio, and his Cold Case Posse throw their bomb.
Everybody better run for cover.
The fireworks are going to be outstanding!
Thanks for the laugh this morning ... I sure as Hell needed it!
Looks like my prepping will be going into overdrive. If dear leader gets re-elected, he’ll milk the legal standard this sets so much he’ll make Hitler look like an amateur.
The timetable has just accelerated, indeed.
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