Posted on 06/28/2012 12:28:33 PM PDT by abigail2
Supreme Court's Obamacare decision hands federal government unlimited power to force you to spend 100% of your paycheck on things you don't even want by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Regardless of whether you agree with the fundamentals of Obamacare, the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court has now ruled the federal government has the power to tax Americans into mandatory purchases of private industry products means an end to economic freedom in America. Why? Because it hands the federal government the power to force the American people to buy anything the government wants or face tax penalties for refusing to do so. It is the equivalent of announcing a federal monopoly over all private purchasing decisions.
"The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts, in his majority opinion. "Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness."
Thus, the government can force Americans to buy anything it wants by simply characterizing the forced payment as a "tax."
Economic freedom crushed by Supreme Court This article is not an argument so much about Obamacare itself, by the way; it's a red alert about a fundamental loss of economic freedom -- a shifting of private purchasing decisions to Washington D.C. Now, buoyed by the passage of Obamacare, the U.S. government can (and will) create new mandates that, for example, would force Americans to buy all the following:
A new car each year from Detroit, in order to "boost the U.S. auto industry."
• War bonds to "support the war effort."
• A year's supply of vaccines.
• Life insurance from the government's "approved" sources.
• Lawn fertilizer (the "lawn health care mandate").
• Intellectual property such as patented human genes already in your body.
There is no limit to the reach of the Supreme Court's wild misinterpretation of the Commerce Clause, it seems. So now, all Americans can expect to get ready for the federal government to start laying out a long list of products and services we will all be taxed into buying from the crony capitalist buddies of those in power.
Government hands economic monopoly to Big Pharma and the vaccine industry Perhaps the worst side effect is that Obamacare isn't really about health care at all. It's about protecting a Big Pharma monopoly over medicine; forcing consumers to buy into a system that offers zero coverage for alternative medicine, nutritional therapies, natural remedies or the healing arts.
If Obamacare actually offered consumers a free market choice of where to get services, it would be a lot more balanced and effective. Instead, it forces consumers to buy into a system of monopoly medicine of drugs and surgery that would flat-out collapse if not for the monopolistic protections granted to the industry by the government itself.
If given a free choice, most consumers prefer complementary medicine than straight-up "drugs and surgery" medicine, but complementary medicine isn't covered under Obamacare. The law is really just another corrupt, criminal-minded handout to the drug industry. And now, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, you can't even opt out!
Abuse of power by the federal government knows no bounds
That's the real kicker in all this: No more opting out of the private purchasing demands of the federal government! Americans are being pick-pocketed at an alarming rate, and it's only going to get worse now that this power has been unwisely handed to the federal government by a short-sighted Supreme Court.
Because long after Obama is gone, other Presidents -- from any political party -- will abuse this precedent to force Americans into buying any number of products, services, or even intellectual property that we don't want. There is now no limit to what the federal government can force you to buy by calling it a "tax."
Note, carefully, there is NO LIMIT to this "taxing" power. If you bring home a monthly paycheck of, for example, $3,000, the U.S. government can now mandate that you spend $2,999 of that on various products and services that it deems you must have "for your own protection." You no longer control your own take-home pay! The government can force you to spend it on things you don't want or even need!
America, it seems, is starting to sound a whole lot like England under King George. Soon, we'll be living under our own modern Stamp Act from 1765, which eventually led to the American Revolution. Learn your history! As Wikipedia explains: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765)
The Stamp Act 1765 (short title Duties in American Colonies Act 1765; 5 George III, c. 12) was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. These printed materials were legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies. Like previous taxes, the stamp tax had to be paid in valid British currency, not in colonial paper money. The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after the British victory in the Seven Years' War. The British government felt that the colonies were the primary beneficiaries of this military presence, and should pay at least a portion of the expense.
The Stamp Act met great resistance in the colonies. The colonies sent no representatives to Parliament, and therefore had no influence over what taxes were raised, how they were levied, or how they would be spent. Many colonists considered it a violation of their rights as Englishmen to be taxed without their consent -- consent that only the colonial legislatures could grant. Colonial assemblies sent petitions and protests. The Stamp Act Congress held in New York City, reflecting the first significant joint colonial response to any British measure, also petitioned Parliament and the King. Local protest groups, led by colonial merchants and landowners, established connections through correspondence that created a loose coalition that extended from New England to Georgia. Protests and demonstrations initiated by the Sons of Liberty often turned violent and destructive as the masses became involved. Very soon all stamp tax distributors were intimidated into resigning their commissions, and the tax was never effectively collected.
Opposition to the Stamp Act was not limited to the colonies. British merchants and manufacturers, whose exports to the colonies were threatened by colonial economic problems exacerbated by the tax, also pressured Parliament. The Act was repealed on March 18, 1766 as a matter of expedience, but Parliament affirmed its power to legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" by also passing the Declaratory Act. There followed a series of new taxes and regulations, likewise opposed by the colonists.
The episode played a major role in defining the grievances and enabling the organized colonial resistance that led to the American Revolution in 1775.
excellent idea!
Look for more of that to happen. Civil disobedence is going to become real popular.
Ok, but are you prepared for them having tanks and drones?
Sadly, we got a little bit closer to it today.
The Chicago Way: find the key decision makers, arrange for a quiet meeting, and ask “how can we make you an offer you can’t refuse?”
Mark my words, we are closer to a second American revolution.
” 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”
That was Obama’s plan all along, and he won.
There, fixed.
We’re going to get single payer and get ready for Canadian style taxes to pay for it and both the Left and the Right will get behind it just like what happened in Canada. Its just a matter of time now.
“The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts, in his majority opinion. “Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness.”
A financial penalty for not buying something is a tax? How so?
How does the Constitution permit such a tax? What was his reasoning?
It appears to me that the SC rewrote the legislation.
If congress doesn't do something instantly to fix this, I'm looking for open season on democrats. Revolutionary War II is upon us.
Warm up the Mark of the Beast.
“Rush’s take: Roberts has been turned by the Elite argument”
Please show me one person from the Ivy League that is not an Oligarchist and will put the country ahead of his/her position in the club. I personally think that it’s time that we start taxing college endowments.
Be happy in your work comrades.
If the burden of preserving Liberty is now on our shoulders (by means of refreshing its Tree with natural manure or otherwise), it is simply our duty to preserve it.
Yes, and now that the Chicago thugs have this huge victory, it just will encourage them to seek out more and more ways to line their own pockets through corruption that makes those of us who work hard and pay taxes the victims of their evil.
It’s worse than that. It says that the power to tax means that they can tax you for anything, even if they can’t constitutionally do the thing they are taxing you for.
Not that I agree with it but I think they do that already..if not dirrectly its hidden in the price of almost everything.
We are, no doubt, paying for morally objectionable things via taxes already.
True Tax Reform seems like the only solution.
Believe me, it would indeed be a way to truly restore our Republic. But after reading and studying revolutions past I tried to ponder how one would come about in modern America.
I don't see any way that one could take hold? The moment an uprising occurs the Federal government would be utterly brutal in it's response.
I feel there are two ways out of this mess: 1) through a total collapse of our civilization. No one should want that. 2) Somehow enough States develop the leadership to legally dissolved the existing Federal government and re-institute a much smaller, Constitutional Republic.
Large numbers of Federal workers will have to be fired and have their pensions revoked. All courts below the Supreme Court will have to be dissolved. Most Federal Departments will have to be eliminated.
The 17th Amendment must be quickly repealed, followed by the 16th.
The States have the power to carry this process out. I place the odds of (2) happening at less than .000001 %
So, I ask, how do you envision the 2nd American Revolution unfolding?
Gary Johnson.
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