Posted on 06/28/2012 10:32:25 AM PDT by veracious
The country founded by our fathers is dead. So many _modernists_ articles posted already on this DC conquest, of a once free people. The heavily educated modernists _know_ that nothing evil has transpired as DC/USG shreaded the USConstitution, from the Reserve creation, Corporate Excise Tax of 1913 mutation into Individual Income Tax, Individual Withholding, Social Security, Medicare/Medicad, to DC complete control of individual HealthCare.
We've come full circle and the majority of USAians don't really know what the root of the USSC decision; see above. USA has allowed the ongoing DC usurpation of the clear intent of USConstitution: a Federal government with limited, enumerated powers has mutated into a government with any powers it declares itself to have.
Sure there are people who think otherwise, but they _want_ to choose otherwise; they do not want USG as defined by the fathers.
The point is, this is the only recourse left to us now. Five men and women let us down today. In November, it’s up to us to answer them. And when Romney wins, we must hold him accountable to keep his promise to repeal this.
Argue in the chambers of Congress and to the American people that it is not a tax and then argue in front of SCOTUS that it is a tax. Dems lie, liberty dies...
We were warned that Mr. Soetoro wanted to “fundamentally change America”, so shame on us all for not believing him. A college constitutional lecturer who considers the Constitution is a “charter of negative liberties” brought down the country with a “pass it first, then read it” parlimentary parlor game. We were told by Sen McCain not to be “skeered” of an Obama Presidency. Shame on all of us. Who is surprised here? Throw ALL the bums out.
The Federal Government hereby Commands you to buy Broccoli every Tuesday, Gym Memberships at Gold’s Gym, Enterically Coated Baby Aspirin, wine, Fish Oil, a Chevy Volt, and Solar Panels for your roof.
All these things are good for you, as your Superiors have decided, and they get to decide how to spend every last dime you earn. The Supremes said so today.
You are now owned, lock stock and barrel, by the government.
They can direct 100% of your earnings as they see fit.
You’re a slave this morning.
Not really.
The Founders decreed that Congress could vote a tax on anything they wanted.
The Democratic Congress and Obama voted for an egrarious new tax on the American people even though they promised time and time again while campaigning that they wouldn't.
Dems always lie and hike taxes. That became clear once again today.
In terms of election positioning with swing voters, we may be fortunate Romney's the nominee on this issue.
I agree and you’ve reminded me that the ‘full circle’ I started with, and left dangling, returns to the Declaration of Independance. USC cannot be understood without it!
The whole “tax”/”not a tax” argument is pointless. The bill has been signed into law.
I’m sure a few state’s attorney’s general’s will now find the stones to make “Justice” Roberts get out his pen and provide the Court’s Constitutional definition of just exactly what a tax is....and perhaps he can also find enough gray matter to explain to us why this “special tax” is NOT a “head tax” or a “poll tax”
“A poll tax (head tax or capitation tax, per U.S. English usage) is a tax of a portioned, fixed amount applied to an individual in accordance with the census (as opposed to a percentage of income). When a corvée is commuted for cash payment, in effect it becomes a poll tax (and vice versa, if a poll tax obligation can be worked off). Head taxes were important sources of revenue for many governments from ancient times until the 19th century. There have been several famous (and infamous) cases of head taxes in history, notably a tax formerly required for voting in parts of the United States that was often designed to disenfranchise poor people, including African Americans, Native Americans, and white people of non-English descent (e.g., the Irish). In the United Kingdom, poll taxes were levied by the governments of John of Gaunt in the 14th C., Charles II in the 17th and Margaret Thatcher in the 20th century.
The word poll is an English word that once meant “head” - and still does, in some specialised contexts - hence the name poll tax for a per-person tax”
All citizens must buy a rifle, a shotgun, and a hand-gun, or pay a fine/tax.
The was Federal USG taxes citizens of a state is via apportionment; the Fed send the Sovereign states a tax bill and the state levies any kind of tax to raise the money.
This way the states defend the citizen. The only way which _could_ work. We are rapidly moving to world quasi-government agencies/government wherein there is never truly representation. Members aren't voted in and even if they were, what kind of silly representation would there be at a say 500 reps for 8 billion people. The same outrageous kinds of ratio that USAians have allowed FedUSG in their Congress and DC bureacrasters.
One person disappears against Congress but is visible at the state level, where the police power including direct taxing power legally exists.
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