The fury against Judge Roberts is akin to some husband getting angry at his wife for pointing out that he’s made lots of bad life choices (not talking about MY marriage, mind you): WE voted for these people, WE let them write these godawful laws, WE keep them in power, and this stink is what WE brought upon ourselves, so we get angry at Justice Roberts for pointing out the obvious. His summary was a GREAT one that every parent has to use at some time or another with their irresponsible child: I’m not here to bail you out of the mess you’ve created. Grow up and do the right thing.
BS. His duty is to UPHOLD The Constitution.
He failed and so does your post.
The job of the SCOTUS is to rule based on the Constitution, NOT to put the blame on the people for electing people who trample on the Constitution.
Roberts is not on the court to bail us out.
He is there to decide the Constitutionality of the law, and he didn’t do it.
It doesn’t take a lot of words and explanations. It’s simple.
He did not do his job.
His reasons don’t really matter, He should resign if he cannot do his job.
Roberts isn’t our parent, he’s a Supreme Court justice. His job is not to give us “tough love”, it’s to rule that unconstitutional laws are unconstitutional, which is a job he has failed to do.
[ WE keep them in power, and this stink is what WE brought upon ourselves, so we get angry at Justice Roberts for pointing out the obvious. ]
No GW Bush put Roberts in power for just such a time as this..
Because BOTH are “progressives”.... to slice and dice the Constitution...
Thank God SOMEONE gets it
Then lets just disband SCOTUS. They have no other purpose for being.
Dickhead doesn’t want to do his job.
FUJR
Roberts wagged his finger at us to distract from the fact that he did not do HIS job. If Roberts was right, we would have no need of a Supreme Court.
I’m afraid the very propose of our constitution is to protect the minority(political) from the foolishness of the voting majority.
Thanks for one of the few intelligent comments on this thread.
Haven’t read the entire thread yet, been warned against all the knee-jerk reactions vs. Roberts and encouraged to read your response — thanks for yours.
Here’s my thought: how do we get this word out? Having read up a bit on the IRS taxation constitutionality issues, this move by Roberts was familiar territory and I think he hit the nail right on the head and should go down in history as not only pragmatic but a HERO for ruling the way he did — he’s absolutely right about the constitutionality distinction between individuals and contractual participants and the sleight of hand and fraudulent precedents set throughout our history since the income tax passed (also questionable as to whether it got the number of states voting for it, as well).
I’ll be sending the link to all the pundits at Fox and to all our local area patriots, as well, and to the Election Integrity Project heads in California — new group started 18 months ago and already active in 15-19 counties in California, where there is NO uniformity between counties in important aspects of preventing election fraud, and in Alameda County election workers are being drilled to ignore state election law in the way they process VBM (”vote by mail”) ballots handed in at the polls (all in order to prevent ADDITIONAL lawsuits by leftist groups against the county).
Press the issues and don’t quit. Thanks again.
I fall into the category of a free individual who does believe that the income tax is a monumental scam on the American People, and, as enforced using the presumption of corporate personhood, represents virtually unlimited tyranny.
That's why the income tax must be voluntary for any non-corporate person, because if it wasn't then there truly wouldn't be any limited government, either in theory or practice.
The same people who are gnashing their teeth at this decision are the people who think that the income tax legitimately applies to non-corporate persons.
At least, in the future, when my income tax-protesting ass is hauled into court, I can use this decision as a basis for my defense. It's better than not having it available for that.
In the United States, slavery is still (barely and technically) voluntary.
I will no longer volunteer for it. Others can do as they wish...
Demaocrats and Obamao are using debt to plunder. Liberty is evaporating as the amount owes grows. They don't need soldiers. A few more food stamp parties and bailouts and you'll get free healthcare. Voting against spending is the way out.