Posted on 06/29/2012 9:40:23 PM PDT by Revel
According to Ben, then if Obamacare is a tax as per the USSC, then the bill had to originate in the house. He claims that it did not. Watch the Video. Can anyone with great understanding validate if what he says is true. Did the final bill not originate in the house? Someone at youtube suggests that the senate used a gutted bill from the house. True or False?
A shell bill really ought not to count as to its original origin if refilled. That’s seriously warping the entire process.
This is what the RATs were afraid of. We need the Senate.
It will be easier to repeal because it’s a tax bill now.
Why can no one understand the difference between what a State government is allowed to do and what the Federal government is allowed to do?
There is a BIG difference. It is entirely legal for State governments to have this kind of law for it’s citizens. But it is NOT legal for the federal government to have this kind of law for ALL STATES. Not in the same manner as the Massachusetts law was set up, anyway.
The decision by Roberts was poorly thought out and drafted. I wrote a similar article prior to this one concerning the way this bill was drafted in the Senate, though I did not know it was rewrote legislation that was taken from the House.
Here is the article I wrote earlier today about this same matter:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2900990/posts
These people we call idiots may be idiots with respect of a lot of things but never underestimate them when it comes to political deceit, pushing through their agenda and stealing elections. They know how the government works and they know how to make it work for their benefit.
Obama's EP on Fast & Fuious may appear like the action of an idiot but ALWAYS assume he's got something else up his sleeve.
Deep down inside I feel at the very least Obama was and is trying to prove to America that the constitution no longer matters which is why he refuses to prove his eligibility.
After seeing how the man has governed, how he has trashed America and intentionally destroying our economy I suspect now that he may be an enemy from the outside which is another reason why he cannot prove his eligibiity.
That being said and though I am one who others may consider a "birther". I've always wondered if Obama was hoping the birther issue would become the MAJOR issue of an election so that on Nov. 5th he would present an authentic BC proving the opposition wrong therefore leaving us without an issue the day before an election.
These people are not stupid when it comes to lies, deceit and stealing an election. They must be considered dangerous. We have at least 2 border agents who would probably agree with me - if they were still alive.
The people, via the Constitution give the government the power to tax to raise revenues to run the government not to punish the people if they break a law.... that what fines are for (if a tax is a fine for breaking a law what law did you break to "own" income or sales tax?)...seem to me using a tax as a punishment is an "unusual" if not cruel punishment
So can the government use a tax, not for revenues but as coercion to force a person to do something and or to punish a person?...
Seem that if the government has decides it can use the tax system as coercive force....
The Constitution can clear be amendment to stated that the power granted to tax may NOT BE USE AS A coercive force on the people...some time you have to spell out the obvious for the stupid
No. Read the opinion (said the lawyer) And, believe it or not, saying it is “taxing authority” doesn’t make it a tax.
Yup. But remember, the number of uninsured that was always originally talked about was something like 20 million. (I dont know the number exactly - it may be much less). ObamaCare supposedly covers 300 million which is OVERKILL. Millions of these people already had insurance through their employer. The man's not only insuring illegal aliens but encouraging them to continue coming in at the same time. The most liberal version of path to citizenship from our side 5 years ago was for those here longer than 20 or 25 years with no criminal record. Obama's "path to citizenship" has worked itself all the way back into the streets of present day Mexico.
At one time there were actually multiple republican pundits suggesting a simple expansion of Medicaid would have covered the small number of uninsured. I don't know where I stand on that but it goes to show you how Obama cut off the limbs of America to fix a cold sore on the lip.
Obama needs to go in November. If he does not, this nation is doomed like we've never seen doom before.
What I’m trying to say is that IF there’s the same wave of rebellion against the status quo as their was in November 2010, Romney AND the Repub majority Congress better whack the heck out of Obamacare. Obama being able to go tyrannical on America is because he’s shielded from accountability due to his race card. Romney won’t have that luxury. He’ll be expected to do something and the voter’s mandate will loom large over the Repub’s heads. Am I dreaming?
They are going to whack the heck out of Obamacare, and it's going to be a hole in one. It might not be called Obamacare when it gets there, but it will get there.
Maybe you haven't been listening to Romney (the grand father of Obamacare) when he said "repeal and replace".
Even if we gain a majority in both houses of Congress, and Romney becomes the 45th president, you still have to contend with the fact that Romney will be in the same position as Obama is now, and can pull many of the same levers to move his own brand of Socialism down field.
Listen carefully to Romney's recent responses to current events, and pay even closer attention to those events he's been silent on. None of it bodes well for the future performance of this man, and in fact, tends to bolster the view that he's going to repeat his performance as Massachusetts Governor, in the White House.
As I said previously, don't rely on a Republican dominated Congress to hold the guy in check. The dynamic works the other way 'round. It's the people who will have to hold Congress in check, from bending to the will of their 'boss'.
It has taken me a while to realize finally that it makes no difference who controls Versaille on the Potomac. Whether it is the Democans or Republicats, the result is the same. Elections have become the modern day equivalent of bread and circuses, designed to placate our desires for excitement.
In 2008, we had the “choice” of McLame or 0bambi. Let’s see, they agreed on abortion, immigration, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bailouts, healthcare and everything else of consequence. Wow, some choice!
In 2010, we elected a bunch of new representatives who were going to take back our government. How’s that worked out? Name one accomplishment that has restored our freedom from the previous session of Congress. You can’t because NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE.
Now, in 2012, we have a “choice” between reelecting 0bambi or electing a white 0bambi. Nothing will change. They will continue to take our freedoms away, one by one.
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. — The history of the injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.”
IF SECESSION IS NOT THE ANSWER, THEN REVOLUTION MUST BE.
What I think is more important is that I don’t believe HHS can issue waivers to a tax. Waivers would have to come from the House. As soon as those unions found out they can’t be waived out of a tax, they’ll be the first to scream about this law.
Even though many on this forum are singing the praises of Roberts and believe that his wisdom is greater than Solomn's, he royaly fucked us, including the parasites. It will just take longer for it to catch up to them.
As far as the waivers go,they will be enforced by the IRS and they will simply give them to who they are told to. Who got/gets them will never be publized nor reported.
Enforced by the I R S
There is a lie (probably many) being told by some Obama spokesman. They say this tax will only affect a tiny few who can afford health insurance and don’t buy it, and will go to emergency rooms for care and “freeload” on the rest of us by not paying for the care.
That’s nothing but a lie because if someone can afford thousands per year for health insurance, then they have income and/or assets. If they then go to an emergency room and do not pay, the hospital will use every collection method available to collect from anyone with income and/or assets. They would not be allowed to “freeload”. They’d have income garnished or have assets seized. The only people who could get away with that scenario at present are probably illegal aliens.
Just one more way in which Obamacare is misrepresented to the American people.
The law is so convoluted in process and principle that there will be multiple effects things that just render it obsolete. First, people are required to comply with the law but there’s no enforcement mechanism that can force them. Second, states are not required to expand Medicaid and are required to balance the budgets so now how is the Government going to add the 30 million to the state’s rolls?
You are missing the point - the Roberts decision boils down to “the only rules that will be enforced are those that advance the revolution”.
Stop quibbling.
Especially a shell bill that received zero “nay” votes from either party when it passed in the House.
Most of these problems were mentioned in the decent by the conservative justices. They touched on the problems that the bill did not originate in the Senate and also the question of whether it was a direct tax requiring apportionment.
What I did not read from them was the flip side of that argument that was settled in Hylton v. United States. If it is not a direct tax requiring apportionment, then it is required by the Constitution to be uniform. But even Justice Roberts admits that this tax is not uniform because, as he cites, Indian Tribes (and others) are exempted.
It was a scathing decent and well worth the read. Roberts, who was described during the nomination process as the smartest guy in the room, has written an historic opinion that will become an exemplar of bad constitutional law. I think he wanted to be a John Marshall; he will be a Roger Taney with a Bill Clinton type legacy.
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