Posted on 06/28/2012 12:28:33 PM PDT by abigail2
Supreme Court's Obamacare decision hands federal government unlimited power to force you to spend 100% of your paycheck on things you don't even want by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Regardless of whether you agree with the fundamentals of Obamacare, the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court has now ruled the federal government has the power to tax Americans into mandatory purchases of private industry products means an end to economic freedom in America. Why? Because it hands the federal government the power to force the American people to buy anything the government wants or face tax penalties for refusing to do so. It is the equivalent of announcing a federal monopoly over all private purchasing decisions.
"The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts, in his majority opinion. "Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness."
Thus, the government can force Americans to buy anything it wants by simply characterizing the forced payment as a "tax."
Economic freedom crushed by Supreme Court This article is not an argument so much about Obamacare itself, by the way; it's a red alert about a fundamental loss of economic freedom -- a shifting of private purchasing decisions to Washington D.C. Now, buoyed by the passage of Obamacare, the U.S. government can (and will) create new mandates that, for example, would force Americans to buy all the following:
A new car each year from Detroit, in order to "boost the U.S. auto industry."
• War bonds to "support the war effort."
• A year's supply of vaccines.
• Life insurance from the government's "approved" sources.
• Lawn fertilizer (the "lawn health care mandate").
• Intellectual property such as patented human genes already in your body.
There is no limit to the reach of the Supreme Court's wild misinterpretation of the Commerce Clause, it seems. So now, all Americans can expect to get ready for the federal government to start laying out a long list of products and services we will all be taxed into buying from the crony capitalist buddies of those in power.
Government hands economic monopoly to Big Pharma and the vaccine industry Perhaps the worst side effect is that Obamacare isn't really about health care at all. It's about protecting a Big Pharma monopoly over medicine; forcing consumers to buy into a system that offers zero coverage for alternative medicine, nutritional therapies, natural remedies or the healing arts.
If Obamacare actually offered consumers a free market choice of where to get services, it would be a lot more balanced and effective. Instead, it forces consumers to buy into a system of monopoly medicine of drugs and surgery that would flat-out collapse if not for the monopolistic protections granted to the industry by the government itself.
If given a free choice, most consumers prefer complementary medicine than straight-up "drugs and surgery" medicine, but complementary medicine isn't covered under Obamacare. The law is really just another corrupt, criminal-minded handout to the drug industry. And now, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, you can't even opt out!
Abuse of power by the federal government knows no bounds
That's the real kicker in all this: No more opting out of the private purchasing demands of the federal government! Americans are being pick-pocketed at an alarming rate, and it's only going to get worse now that this power has been unwisely handed to the federal government by a short-sighted Supreme Court.
Because long after Obama is gone, other Presidents -- from any political party -- will abuse this precedent to force Americans into buying any number of products, services, or even intellectual property that we don't want. There is now no limit to what the federal government can force you to buy by calling it a "tax."
Note, carefully, there is NO LIMIT to this "taxing" power. If you bring home a monthly paycheck of, for example, $3,000, the U.S. government can now mandate that you spend $2,999 of that on various products and services that it deems you must have "for your own protection." You no longer control your own take-home pay! The government can force you to spend it on things you don't want or even need!
America, it seems, is starting to sound a whole lot like England under King George. Soon, we'll be living under our own modern Stamp Act from 1765, which eventually led to the American Revolution. Learn your history! As Wikipedia explains: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765)
The Stamp Act 1765 (short title Duties in American Colonies Act 1765; 5 George III, c. 12) was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. These printed materials were legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies. Like previous taxes, the stamp tax had to be paid in valid British currency, not in colonial paper money. The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after the British victory in the Seven Years' War. The British government felt that the colonies were the primary beneficiaries of this military presence, and should pay at least a portion of the expense.
The Stamp Act met great resistance in the colonies. The colonies sent no representatives to Parliament, and therefore had no influence over what taxes were raised, how they were levied, or how they would be spent. Many colonists considered it a violation of their rights as Englishmen to be taxed without their consent -- consent that only the colonial legislatures could grant. Colonial assemblies sent petitions and protests. The Stamp Act Congress held in New York City, reflecting the first significant joint colonial response to any British measure, also petitioned Parliament and the King. Local protest groups, led by colonial merchants and landowners, established connections through correspondence that created a loose coalition that extended from New England to Georgia. Protests and demonstrations initiated by the Sons of Liberty often turned violent and destructive as the masses became involved. Very soon all stamp tax distributors were intimidated into resigning their commissions, and the tax was never effectively collected.
Opposition to the Stamp Act was not limited to the colonies. British merchants and manufacturers, whose exports to the colonies were threatened by colonial economic problems exacerbated by the tax, also pressured Parliament. The Act was repealed on March 18, 1766 as a matter of expedience, but Parliament affirmed its power to legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" by also passing the Declaratory Act. There followed a series of new taxes and regulations, likewise opposed by the colonists.
The episode played a major role in defining the grievances and enabling the organized colonial resistance that led to the American Revolution in 1775.
You see, they can't stop you from having a second child. But if you do, they can tax you $1 million. After all, it costs society to raise your child.
They can tax you for being Catholic.
They can tax you for posting on Free Republic.
The implications of this decision are mind-boggling.
“I’m sure a few state’s attorney’s general’s will now find the stones to make “Justice” Roberts get out his pen and provide the Court’s Constitutional definition of just exactly what a tax is....”
Actually, his opinion is rather clear. If the penalty is less than the activity penalized costs, then it’s within the taxing powers of congress. That is true even if congress doesn’t call it a tax and even if the sponsors of the bill deny over and over that it is a tax.
So if a Chevy Volt costs $40,000, a penalty for not buying a Volt of $20,000 passes consitutional muster.
Roberts should hang his head in shame.
Whip-de-do. Totally irrelevant. Power is power no matter the Constitutional justification.
Congress, the President will say anything to justify increasing the power of the State over the individual. One can try and rationalize this or that, but the very simple fact is that Liberty was dealt a death blow today.
Roberts clearly and decisively sided with State Power. The "regulate Commerce" phrasing is insulting. We are far beyond such trivialities of language.
We have entered the phase of raw, unbridled power wielded by Men who want to rule over others with an Iron fist.
Liberty is on life support in our Republic.
Wow, good points...
How long before you can’t buy medicine from Canada? That’s gonna’ be a big hit to a lot of us.
We were just ruled meaning less and your rights completely taken away from you. What this does do is make the people part of the prize for winning. People can not grasp what Scotus just did.
Very well stated. BTW, did anyone notice that on the podium from which romney made his speech today had a sign on it stating obamacare - repeal and replace. Replace? Replace? Replace with what exactly? What happened to simply repealing this POS law? People, the most perfect covenant ever conceived on this earth, the US Constitution, was murdered today. It has been on life support for a very long time but today so-called justice roberts (may piss be apon him) pulled the cord and killed it. I only hope that obama will honor his side of the deal and give ole johnny roberts the reach-around.
I think Adams has a better understanding than you do. What Roberts said is that Congress cannot force the citizenry by law to buy health insurance, but it can coerce the citizenry by taxation to do so. This is a distinction without a difference.
Just as bad, a part of the majority stated/established that the Constitution allows the federal government the power to tax without limit! Combined with giving .gov the power to COMPEL us to buy something from another individual, this is THE END folks.
If there was any doubt before, it should be clear now. We no longer live in a free country. Thank you ‘Benedict Roberts’.
(it makes me damn near physically ill knowing that KENNEDY was willing to toss out the whole damn thing, and it was ROBERTS that fell in line with the liberals!!!!!!!)
“wild misinterpretation of the Commerce Clause”
SC didn’t misinterpret the Commerce Clause, they abolished it.
Good point, reminds me of what Schwartenegger said when he ran for governor...”They tax you when you wake up, they tax you when you buy a coffee, they tax you ...etc etc”
We need someone to get out in front of this and demand that every household must have a gun....or pay a "tax"
Then, make the penalty for not buying omagube care applicable to one and ALL.
That should slap some sense into these morons who are celebrating this madness.
Time to get off our medicine...fhu.com will help you as well as naturalnews.com
What I mean by above is that the power will not be wielded as done by dictators in the past.
It will be as Mark Levin states, a soft tyranny
The ruling class in D.C. will control our lives in every manner through endless regulations and edicts. They will intimidate us, humiliate us and fine us in order to bend us to their will.
Those doing the bidding of the elites will be enthusiastic people who relish the chance to be sadistic to their fellow citizens. There are large numbers of people who relish being part of such tyranny. It wont be a physical tyranny, but just as evil as any humans have experienced -- for they will take away our humanity.
Its not the federal governments job to provide healthcare.
Exactly. Congress will never again mandate desired behavior by law; now they'll simply compel the citizenry to conform through the coercion of taxation.
Simple as I can say it...
I WILL NOT COMPLY.
5.56mm
Look for civil disobedence to make a comeback.
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