There were at least three key questions considered in this case:
1) Was the government mandate unconstitutional with regard to the commerce clause? SCOTUS ruled that unconstitutional.
2) Was the government punishment of total withholding of Medicaid funding against states that did not expand Medicaid unconstitutional? SCOTUS ruled that unconstitutional.
3) Was the government mandate penalty constitutional if regarded as a tax instead? SCOTUS ruled that constitutional.
With extreme hypocrisy, after stating over and over again that the non-compliance penalty was not a tax to get the law passed, the Obama administration argued before the USSC that Obamacare was constitutional because the non-compliance penalty was not actually a penalty, but a tax instead, and that Congress has taxing authority. CJ Roberts and the four liberals bought that argument, and thus was born an unprecedented “penalty tax” which releases the government of any restraint to attack the freedom of the people. The government now has a new power to impose a “penalty tax” for any reason, at least if it can argue that it is “for the general welfare of the people” if challenged to SCOTUS.
This is a disaster. This new power of a “penalty tax” granted by SCOTUS will have to be undone by whatever means necessary for the good of the republic.
The RNC had better hammer this until the elections. If this continues much further the people have nothing left to lose.
1. INCOME: The federal government has claimed the right to take 100% of our incomes through the income tax.
2. PROPERTY: The federal government has claimed it can take our properties through eminent domain to sell for government profit. (Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005)
3. MONEY/WEALTH: The federal government has claimed it can take whatever we have left in our pockets as a tax with this latest decision.
Therefore: You can earn nothing, possess nothing, and have nothing if the federal government calls it a tax.
The court also ruled things can be taxed that would otherwise be unconstitutional to make them constitutional. Yes, that was their twisted logic. So, assert your 5th amendment rights, get taxed. The government cannot force you to speak but your silence can be taxed according to this ruling. Doing nothing at all can be taxed.
What’s left to do but dissolve the federal government?