"Told ya so!"
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And the nation will really suffer if it is not canceled.
As mentioned in related threads, regardless what Obama’s activist justices want everybody to think about the constitutionality of Obamacare, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate healthcare purposes. This is evidenced by the excerpts from historical Supreme Court case opinions towards the end of this post.
The constitutional reality is that each state should have its own, 10th Amendment-protected healthcare program if that’s what a give state’s voters want, RomneyCare a rough example.
The reason that the corrupt federal government is trying to force unconstitutional federal healthcare on the states gets us back to the 17th Amendment.
More specifically, the Founding States had not only established the federal Senate, but had given the power to vote for senators uniquely to state lawmakers. The reason that only state lawmakers could vote for federal senators was so that senators would protect their states in Congress by killing bills which not only steal state powers, but also state revenues assoctiated with those powers, intrastate healthcare now added to the list of stolen state powers.
In fact, the Supreme Court has historically clarified that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, such powers not including healthcare as evidenced by the excerpts at the end of this post.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
But as a consequence of ill-conceived 17A, low-information voters now go home after voting for their favorite federal senators and watch football, clueless that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to establish things like Obamacare. As a consequence, corrupt senators get away with stealing from their own states by passing unconstitutional bills like Obamacare instead of killing it.
In fact, the Senate is constitutionally obligated to lead Congress to successfully propose a healthcare amendment to the Constitution to the states before passing such a bill.
And what’s worse is that the Senate then confirms activist justices who declare unconstitutional laws like Obamacare to be constitutional.
What a racket!
Below are excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions which clarify that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate healthcare.
Regarding the constitutionality of Obamacare insurance which activist justices are now probably looking for an excuse to justify, please note the third entry in the list below from Paul v. Virginia. That excerpt clarifies that insurance policies are a simple contract, not commerce. And Congress’s Commerce Clause powers do not extend to regulating insurance policies, even if buyer and seller belong to different states.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
”4. The issuing of a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce [emphasis added] within the meaning of the latter of the two clauses, even though the parties be domiciled in different States, but is a simple contract of indemnity against loss.” — Paul v. Virginia, 1869. (The corrupt feds have no Commerce Clause (1.8.3) power to regulate insurance.)
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphases added] beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.
Again, there’s never been anything stopping the states from establishing their own healthcare programs, or from amending the Constitution to expressly grant such powers to the feds.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators and activist justices along with it.
Anyone losing their coverage are democrats anyway!!
Bring it on.
“SeeBS: GOP Could Suffer Fallout If Supreme Court Rules To Eliminate Obamacare For Millions”
The story line is unintentionally correct.
The fallout will be when McConnell/Boehner, with enough Republican establishment and Dim votes, push through a bill to continue the ObummerCare subsidies. The result will be a huge fallout among the Republican base, already fed up with CRomnibus, funding the None’s illegal amnesty, the secret TPP trade deal, and McConnell/Boehner pushing for a full blown extension of government spying on its citizens.
Wait...the by-line says CBS Bay Area. That explains it.
Almost spit Ice tea all over the place when I saw the “SeeBS”!
If democrats write a law in a fashion that’s illegal it’s NOT our fault... Of course the liars in the MSM - the ringers like George Stephanopoulos will play it that way.
In the short run the networks ‘win’ in the long run they’ll die like biased newspapers.
Think about the parts the GOP is fighting. The delay of the employer mandate: The GOP wants the president to implement a part of the law that would be a huge burden on business owners. The subsidies: The GOP wants to enforce a part of the law that takes away poor people’s subsidies because their state lawmakers refused to set up exchanges. Why is this the hill they’re choosing to die on? It’s not. They’re just playing a well-scripted game. This will marginalize the conservative base and make the Establishment into moderate heroes.
When the subsidies are ended, the conservatives will launch a campaign to kill Ocare completely. The Rats and the media will cast it as a battle over the subsidies alone.
They know it is doomed........ they are attempting to create a structure of blame to escape the horrible truth