Dread pirate Roberts just upheld government tyranny and power. Look at the taxes Roberts said were ok.
This decision says that the government can compel you to do anything, as long as it makes the penalty for non-compliance a tax.
There is no victory here, no silver lining. The court has affirmed what they began with in Kelo -- to remind us that we are nothing but serfs who don't actually own property but must do whatever the government orders us to do.
No, it doesn't.
Jay Cost is a moron. We lost. We lost big. The whole country lost.
Personally I think they solidified the GOP hold on the house and guaranteed GOP control of the senate.
The SC said the federal government can order us to do anything they please as long as they call it a tax, even though they don’t call it a tax. Confused?
Our forefathers overthrew a king now it's our turn -- and we have a two-hundred-plus-year tradition of elections to overthrow this clown king peacefully.
Uh,...exactly where/how did the the SC limit any of the law? You must have to go through a law school to have this little sense. It’s like they called a cat a rabbit, therefore it is, so don’t worry about it being a cat because cat’s aren’t allowed.
This clown is dillusional. When the court can simply change the word penalty to tax and say the government is restricted, there are no restrictions. Liberals change the meaning of words all the time to fit an agenda.
This author is in la-la land riding unicorns through rainbows whilst smoking wacky-weed and sniffing pixy dust.
This decision reaffirms the goverment’s ability to coerce / dictate individual behavior by tax policy. Hurray, hurray what a wonderful victory for conservative principles.
Cost is a MORON.
They took a not surprising course and kicked the matter back into the hands of the voters.
The showdown is in November.
Be there.
This decision continues the process of dissolving the States and says, in effect, that the People and the States have no powers which the central government is bound to honor or respect.
It certainly, in effect, repeals the ninth and tenth amendments.
The lesson here: If you want something done, do it yourself.
Don’t expect the SCOTUS to pull our political chestnuts out of the fire. Don’t even trust them to pull our constitutional chestnuts out of the fire. The libs have relied on the court to do for them what they could not do through the political branches. I think the long term political tide is against them, and this tactic will ultimately fail them, as it has failed us today.
At the end of the day, O-care will stand or fall, based on the actions of the political branches of gov’t.
Therefore, we need to be loud, support candidates that support liberty and limited gov’t, vote, and convince others to vote. No RINO’s. All of our elected officials need to hear explicitly and loudly from us. We must contribute and support those who are true conservatives.
For those “Doom and Gloomers” who’ve been predicting a ‘Second Amendment Solution’ to government intrusion into our lives... the timetable has moved forward.
Let us pray they’re wrong.
Yes lets put a happy face on the acts of a tyrant! * Sarcasm*
Because Roberts threw a few ultimately meaningless bones we should not take that silver and leave. He riped the heart of our freedom away. He declared government may tax inaction and in doing so made us slaves.
Roberts is a traitor to liberty and the Constitution and no man can be free until he is removed.
Real conservatives need to stop listening to psychobabble from PhonyCon pubs like Weakly Standard
America was pretty much neutered today, led by a Chief Justice who was appointed by a FraudCon Bush II and pushed by a FraudCon GOP senate.
No more whiny psychobable...time to pee or get off the pot. There needs to be some serious action from Real Conservatives to start fixing this nation
Huh? They can now mandate any freaking activity they want and tax you if you don't comply.
” Eat 5 pounds of spinach a week, or pay a $1,000.00 tax.”
“Buy a exploding golf cart, or pay a $10,000.00 tax.”
Etc Etc Etc...
A government BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE just died. :(
We now need to pass a new constitutional amendment, to reverse this horrible precedent created today by the Roberts’ Court, making it clear that Fedzilla cannot tax us in this manner.