Myth RomneyCARE to felon DiMasi:
"I bet you $10,000 that I can create RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE
And the stupid GOP will LOVE me for it
as I pretend it did not even happen
and YOU ... serve time."
Posted on 06/28/2012 12:28:33 PM PDT by abigail2
This is what we get with the now-revealed Fascist “Chief Justice”
Another colossal W Bush F-up.
It’s funny in a sad way: In six days, we celebrate our standing up to a giant, central government and declared enough-was-enough. We even spilled countless amounts of blood to achieve this freedom. Today, the Supreme Court allowed Congress to have unlimited powers in forcing us to buy whatever it is they are lobbied for us to buy with no check or balance except the ballot box in November.
Myth RomneyCARE to felon DiMasi:
"I bet you $10,000 that I can create RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE
And the stupid GOP will LOVE me for it
as I pretend it did not even happen
and YOU ... serve time."
They will forward on to you the portion they feel you deserve.
Whatever you call it, a fine or a tax (which by nature both are punitive, and both are used to compel you to do or not do something), are forced coercion under threat of government penalty/punishment.
In effect they are using their power to compel you to buy or not buy something. If you don’t they punish you. How is that not forcing you to buy something. Otherwise something bad will happen to you by the government. If that isn’t de facto forcing you to do something (else bad stuff will occur to you - fines, jail time) I don’t know what is.
The most likely next application will be requiring the purchase of “green energy” products. For example, every homeowner must install solar hot water heaters. If they do not, they have to pay a new energy tax.
Rush’s take: Roberts has been turned by the Elite argument that his legacy as chief justice would be ruined if he did not vote with the Liberals. How horrifying. How disappointing. His ego trumped his ideaology. It’s now the Little Johnny Roberts Court.
This article really summed it up for me. I have trouble understanding it all and how to discuss it with the enemy (LOL) if you understand...Hope you like this as well as I did. I emailed it to my email list too... :)
I don’t know if he’s facist or just incredibly weak and unable to say ‘no’ to the ladies...
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”
pay for something that 60-70% doesn’t want... by taking the money, under threat of violence, from those same people
good luck with that
JUST SAY NO!
- NReagan
The demorat congressman said after the passing that, "we finally have control over the people". This is the truth. The Gov, no matter who is in charge, have complete control over its people. So tell me, the only thing the sides are going to fight for now is who controls the people.
Apparently Adams did not read what Roberts wrote:
Construing the Commerce Clause to permit Congress to regulate individuals precisely because they are doing nothing would open a new and potentially vast domain to congressional authority. Congress already possesses expansive power to regulate what people do. Upholding the Affordable Care Act under the Commerce Clause would give Congress the same license to regulate what people do not do. The Framers knew the difference between doing something and doing nothing. They gave Congress the power to regulate commerce, not to compel it. Ignoring that distinction would undermine the principle that the Federal Government is a government of limited and enumerated powers. The individual mandate thus cannot be sustained under Congress’s power to “regulate Commerce.”
Or its sad in a funny way...
And Republicans love power every bit as much as the Rats do.
I can hardly wait, NOT!
Now we know why he had to hire many more IRS agents and an {”national security” gang to oversee this bill. It has nothing to do with health and everything to do with control
Of course!
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