[nwrep]

What if congress passes a bill that said if is a man you do not marry another man then you must pay a tax? What if congress passes a bill that says if as a woman you do not marry another woman then you must pay a tax? What if congress passes a bill that states that if you do not abort your second child you must pay a tax? What if congress passes a bill that says if a white person does not abort their first child then they must pay a tax?

If we get a Congress that does any of these things, don't expect SCOTUS to bail us out. That is the whole point of the decision. Besides, I don't think a Congress that passes anything as egregious as your examples will survive another election. I think most people here are missing that point. Weilding taxing power opens up Congress to defend something people understand and instinctively revolt againt. Hiding behind the Commerce Clause or the N&P CLause is opaque, most people don't know what it means, and Congress can slip a backdoor legislation through those clauses. Much harder to pass a new tax.

[chris37]

While I realize my examples are extreme, they are meant to show that the us federal government can now force us to do whatever they want.

The congress that passed Obamatax was booted in two years flat, yet their legacy will destroy this country.

It’s really as if electing congressmen every two years isn’t enough. It needs to now be 6 months or less.

I also do not believe that the GOP or anyone else who goes to congress is going to vote to remove unlimited power from themselves.

We have to remember what kind of people seek this job.

No senate is going to vote to remove such power, and no president will sign any such bill.

We are now a society who voted away its freedom from some trinkets, and now we are scrambling to figure out how to get it back,

And there really is only one way, and even that would fail.