No, it's not just like buying gas or earning income. Those are voluntary acts of commerce. Nobody gets taxed for NOT buying gasoline. Nobody pays income tax for income the DIDN'T earn.
Roberts got it wrong. He couldn't be more wrong if he showed up a funeral for a young child, put on a pink tutu with no underwear and started singing at the top of his lungs "Another one bites the dust..." That is how wrong his thinking is.
The ObamaTax is like charging every citizen a federal property tax if they fail to go out and buy property.
You posted, in part: No, it’s not just like buying gas or earning income. Those are voluntary acts of commerce. Nobody gets taxed for NOT buying gasoline. Nobody pays income tax for income the DIDN’T earn.
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We do get taxed for failing to do certain things, and have for a long time. If we fail to take advantage of any number of tax deductions by, for example, not giving to charity, or not buying a home, etc. etc., our tax liability is increased. I am sure that there are many other examples, but these are enough to prove the point— unfortunately.
I agree. As stated by the author, this decision ... has made it substantially easier to repeal Obamacare, and substantially harder to pass anything like it in the future. No future appellate court can any longer find this socialist monstrosity constitutional. 0bamaTax has been unconsitutionally applied. So there will be a whole new set of state lawsuits very shortly.
Just think of the > 1,000 0bamacare waivers. Now that it is a "tax", these "waivers" are capricious, unfair and inconsistent. Every entity in the country who does not have an 0bamacare waiver can sue 0bama for his unfair taxation. Tea Partiers unite!!!
Now that's a winning legal proposition with lasting comprehensiveness. Here's Ken Cuccinelli (VA Attorney General) who filed the first State lawsuit against 0bamacare .....
Victory in Defeat (The Va. Attorney General see's a silver lining)