Now they can tax us for anything. Will you have to pay a special tax to own a gun? Will there be a special tax to vote? Of course they pick and choose who to tax and for whatever reason there is nothing objective in their methods. They could slap a property tax on just about anything you own. They can even tax you for things you don’t own or choose not to purchase. This is absolute insanity.
I’m thiking the same thing. Now we can be taxed for not doing or buying something.
If it is a tax, it’s a Direct Tax which is unConstitutional.
But we live in a post-Constitutional Republic.
This question about Roberts isn’t a mystery and there’s no conspiracy, you just have to think about it for a second. Presidents appoint justices that fit their ideology. Bush was pro-life (Roberts is), pro-gun (Roberts is), pro-marriage (Roberts is), pro corporate spending (Roberts is). He was also an illegal lover (Roberts is) and a big spender on healthcare laws (Roberts is). He’s voting the same way GWB would if he was a SCOTUS judge.
Regardless, he betrayed the Constitution and his actions, and those who sided with him are traitorous.
I am sick to my stomach. This is a dark day for the republic.
Someone with PhotoShop skills...please rework the old “Dallas” promo...replace Hagman’s face with the chief justice’s and caption it: “Who bought JR?”
Roberts could have easily and justifiably ended at least on of the chapters of misery and cliff hanging uncertainty that has burdened this country for too, too long.
He manipulated what the administration and lousy congress and spinate swore was not a tax into being a tax for his convenience. Why? Only he and God know. His logic is so twisted and perverted that one quickly and easily is drawn to the conclusion that he acted in some self-interest.
There are so many trying spin this as good and justify Robert’s treason. I think they protest too much. I smell crap.
As for me and my house, may John Roberts rot in hell and go down in history as a traitor to the principles of freedom, the Republic and the Constitution. All three of these seem to be taking a long walk off of a short pier. I hope that he has a long and miserable life... a short one would be too good for him. If there is justice he will agonize and regret this decision for eternity.
It seems to me that as bad as the USSC upholding commiecare was, something really positive came out of it.
Most of the laws that come out of Washington that expand government and tramp on the 10th amendment are based on the commence clause. While it may be true that the feds can force us to buy toothpaste... There not going to be able to justify it with the commence clause, and they are very unlikely to want to call it a tax.
Taking away the commence clause crutch is going to make it very difficult for congress to justify the constitutionally of a large portion of the laws and regs that come out of Washington.
I’ve said this before. I hope Roberts burns in hell.
Look this is judicial activism writ large. Roberts has no power to rewrte statutes. He is as lawless as Obama and should beheld in contempt by all thinking people.
We haven't heard the slogan, "IMPEACH THE CHIEF JUDTICE" since Earl Warren's tenure. Guess its time to renew the cry.
More crap in this article.
It’s ‘Robertscare’ now. He bought it. He owns it.
The constitution has been betrayed. The rule of law has been betrayed. The American people have been lied to and betrayed. The Republic has not been kept. A dangerous world is one step closer to the end of all freedom. Limitless government is forcing its power and reach to control every aspect of our lives. Well everyone one of you in government can just kiss my a$$.
What does obama have on roberts?
I can think of a few reasons why Judge Roberts decided as he did.
First, he said that, it’s not the role of the Supreme Court to protect the people from the consequences of the political decisions which the people make. In that sense, he’s punishing the people for voting in the people who created and voted for Obamacare. (Never mind that, the rest of the people who didn’t vote for the commiecrats, are also being punished). In that sense, Roberts might be thinking the way I feel, which is, that the people won’t learn the tough lessons of socialism, until they find themselves in deep depression and desperation, or like a Greece.
Then, Judge Roberts may be forcing Obama and the democrats to have to defend Obamacare and their tax and spend policies, during this coming election, and if the people are smart and notice the dangers the country is headed towards, then Obama will be voted out, and many other democrats will lose their seats.
Also, keeping Obamacare as an election issue, is one way to help replace Obama, and, Roberts might be feeling confident that, with a republican congress and a “republican” president, that Obamacare will be repealed, and therefore, still meeting the death it well deserved.
So, Roberts might have been planning to kill two birds with one stone, Obama and Obamacare, while teaching the people a well-deserved lesson that stupidity deserves.
Roberts’ decision is like the surgeon about whom it can be said that, “The operation was a success, but the patient died.”