Posted on 06/28/2012 8:51:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 06/28/2012 9:05:37 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. upheld the heart of President Obama's healthcare law Thursday, ruling that the government may impose tax penalties on those who do not have health insurance. The decision came on a 5-4 vote, with the court's four liberal justices joining with the chief justice.
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When squishy, finger-in-the-air, always-on-the-fence Anthony Kennedy was in favor of striking the entire law down, it tells you something about Roberts that he would side with the uber commie justices to prop ObummerCare up by claiming it was a tax when the clear legislative intent based upon statements by the sponsors was that it was not a tax.
Roberts—do us a favor and resign from the bench and go to work for an ultra-leftist “public interest” foundation.
I guess Roberts needs to hold a big coming out party with his new liberal friends. He wants to be the Earl Warren of this century.
It most certainly is.
But to most people, it will be a perfect storm when they realize that they are going to be dinged into buying gummit regulation healthcare, with all its rococo, uneconomic bells and whistles, via a line item on their 1040 forms. Obamacare had a vacation from politics. Now with Roberts’ clever little parsing (and the unconstitutional participation of Kagan) that vacation is over.
Oh yeah, Republicans will appoint strong Constitutional Judges that stand for the Republic and its future well-being.
Keep that in mind when you throw the lever for Mitt.. the Grand PoohBah of Healthcare.
Better revolution in the streets than debtor prisons the size of Massachusetts..
Oh and would this be Bush’s Fault? Roberts being his biggy appoinment.
Kennedy isn’t that deep a thinker, and thank goodness.
Roberts is clever. Too clever, by about eleventeen halves.
Unfortunately he has 30 years to keep leaking. I firmly believe he will be the most hated justice in history with booing following the rest of his life.
Leni
Exactly!
So, the federal government can now mandate commerce; they simply need to represent it is a negative tax: Buy this or else get taxed. So much for the US Constitution.
The US Supreme Court also ruled recently that all property is subject to confiscation to be sold for profit of the government with the owner getting what the government decides to give them. Combined with this ruling the property owner can now be taxed the entire amount of the proceeds and receive nothing.
Regardless if ObamaCare is overturned in the Congress, the court decision stands that the federal government can mandate commerce. They can tax you for anything you do not buy or they demand you buy. The federal government may now control 100% of how you spend your money.
We are now literal slaves to the government.
Since the federal government refuses to obey the constitution we should too! REVOLT!!!
Good politics in America involves a whole lot more than general election votes. The turnout was criminally pitiful in GOP primaries this year — the people who did not get off their duff but could have, would have easily sufficed to get any of Newt, either Rick, or even the Black Walnut Candidate nominated.
They just took a big piece of freedom from us. Soon they will be ordering homeowners to house the homeless. Obama has the power to take someone into custody if he feels like it. They already have the power to seize our property. They refuse to seal the borders. We’re all just like a bunch of lemmings following along into Marxist oblivion. The only chance we have is to vote him out, God help us if he gets another four years.
I did, yesterday afternoon.
I called the exact decision on Wednesday afternoon... I knew we had a traitor (Roberts also jumped ship in AZ ruling) on SCOTUS...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2900077/posts?page=45#45
...and got my head handed to me:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2900077/posts?page=70#70
May God help us all now.
They just took a big piece of freedom from us. Soon they will be ordering homeowners to house the homeless. Obama has the power to take someone into custody if he feels like it. They already have the power to seize our property. They refuse to seal the borders. We’re all just like a bunch of lemmings following along into Marxist oblivion. The only chance we have is to vote him out, God help us if he gets another four years.
Obamacare Forward to Tax
In my humble opinion, Chief Justice Roberts negotiated the protection we needed—protection of States’ Rights, in return for revealing the truth about taxes, which the People can resolve in the very next election.
Some things must be handled by the Supreme Court to save the Republic, like upholding the 10th Amendment—States’ Rights. But a huge tax increase on the Middle Class is easily resolved in the very next four or so months by the People. This forces Obama to admit he has broken a campaign promise to the Middle Class by raising yet another tax on them.
In Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice Marshall (a Federalist) gave Jefferson (an anti-Federalist) a victory, which forced Jefferson to acknowledge Marshall’s authority to say what the Law is. In Obamacare, Chief Justice Roberts (a Republican appointee) gave Obama (a Democrat) a victory, which forces Obama to acknowledge the mandate survives as the tax it is.
Democrats want to raise taxes to redistribute wealth, to subsidize projects, to control behavior. Chief Justice Roberts gave them that. The 16th Amendment—Income Taxes already permits this. It is easily reversed in the next election. Moreover, the decision gives the issue of our tax system clarity for the voter.
The government through our current tax system can control everything. Tax “credits” can “penalize” you for refusing Congress’s directions. Through loopholes and credits, the government can force taxpayers to choose the path chosen for them, or face onerous taxes (and the criminal penalties for not paying them). In other words, if Obama wants you to all kick in money to repay his campaign contributors at Solyndra, he can demand you pay a $1,000 tax or buy a solar panel with such narrow specifications it could only come from Solyndra.
The People must vote for tax reformers: no more loopholes, tax credits, or other disguised oppressive tricks; we need a flat tax or fair tax—in any form, a blind tax.
“What the Court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected President of the United States—that is, I will act to repeal Obamacare.” —Mitt Romney
It’s a start.
TRAITORS!!!
Souter resigned from the SCOTUS some years ago.
What our wise leaders said about Chief Justice Roberts
Rep. John Boehner (R-OH): “Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito, President Bush’s two successful appointments to the high court, are who we hoped and thought they were — Justices committed to a fair and just interpretation of the Constitution.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY): “Judge Roberts because his position in a particular case did not mirror a Senator’s personal policy preferences, nor when it comes to a fair process should we require.”
Sen. Tom Coburn (R- TX): “I’m confident that Chief Justice John Roberts will help restore the Constitutional balance of power between the branches of government. Judge Roberts, I believe, will not attempt to write policy from the bench and will leave legislating to the Congress. …Judge Roberts proved himself during his confirmation hearing to be extraordinarily intelligent, highly-qualified and totally committed to applying the law justly.”
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC): “We need a Justice, not a super legislator — a Justice who will rightly interpret our laws, not create laws.”
Sen. John Thune (R-SD): “As we pay tribute to the legacy of former Chief Justice Rehnquist, we see many of the qualities that marked his tenure of excellence mirrored in Judge Roberts. …Judge Roberts brings with him a brilliant legal mind and a profound respect for the Constitution and the Court.”
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL): “John Roberts’s confirmation was a defeat for the politicization of the courts and the notion that a judge should be an advocate for this or that view.”
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX): “An exceptional judge, brilliant legal mind, and a man of outstanding character who understands his profound duty to follow the law.”
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO): “He has proven himself as a judge who applies the law impartially with an eye toward the strict interpretation of the Constitution, rather than legislating from the bench.”
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT): “If I have ever seen anybody who deserves being on the Court more than John Roberts, I have to think pretty hard. John Roberts is a fine man.”
Frmr. Sen. George Allen (R-VA): “I found Judge Roberts to be a well-grounded individual whom I believe understands that the proper role of a judge is to apply the law and not invent it. I am confident he will be an outstanding member of the Supreme Court who will be a responsible and influential voice for years to come.”
Frmr Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA): “I can think of no one more qualified and worthy to fulfill the role of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court than Judge Roberts.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA): “I believe that at his hearing last week, Judge Roberts demonstrated that he will be fair and open-minded, and will approach cases without bias and without a personal agenda. This is the kind of judge that everyone – both liberals and conservatives alike – wants on the bench.”
The most optimistic way to view this is that the question just got hurled back to the political arena.
One might hope that in the spirit of the fate of campaign finance reform, which took multiple trips before the USSC to die, eventually even the USSC will grok the issue of an overly penalizing tax and nix it. The case has to be brought in a different manner.
Yup this really is Bush’s fault. And that includes the vote of one of Obama’s justices too. That is also Bushes fault. Why? Because Roberts is a law breaker who ignored the law that said that Obama’s justice must be excused from this decision because of previous involvement. It blows my mind that no one seems to remember such details. Roberts was stacking the court all along.
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