This is allll based on the John Roberts decision. Now, EVERYTHING is a tax.
"This is allll based on the John Roberts decision. Now, EVERYTHING is a tax."
Whatever the post-FDR era law schools are teaching students, its evidently not the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the drafters of the Constitution had intended for those powers to be understood.
In fact, John Roberts and his colleagues don't seem to understand that the Supreme Court has historically clarified that Congress's power to appropriate taxes is likewise constitutionally limited, evidenced by the excerpts below.
Consider that one of the main problems with taxes is that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification (popular voting for federal senators) Congress is greatly abusing is abusing its repealable 16th Amendment power (direct taxes) to appropriate taxes, Congress not able to reasonably justify probably most taxing and spending under its constitutional, Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
From the congressional record, Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified Congress's constitutionally limited powers as follows:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
Also consider the following excerpts from the writings of respected constitutional experts which indicate that the Roberts Court got Obamacare wrong imo, the states still uniquely having the 10th Amendment power to make, tax and spend for INTRastate healthcare policy, including to stop the spread of disease.
"Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws [emphasis added], regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc." —Thomas Jefferson to James Sullivan, 1807.
"They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation, which embrace every thing in the territory of a state not surrendered to the general government. Inspection laws, quarantine laws, and health laws, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and others, which respect roads, fences, &c. are component parts of state legislation, resulting from the residuary powers of state sovereignty. No direct power over these is given to congress, and consequently they remain subject to state legislation [emphases added], though they may be controlled by congress, when they interfere with their acknowledged powers." —Justice Joseph Story, Article I, Section 10, Clause 2, 1833.
Since corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties have pirated control of state and federal governments, it's now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to do the following. Trump's supporters need to support him with new state and federal lawmakers and executives in November so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his 2nd term, the new Congress also supporting him to quickly finish draining the swamp.