Posted on 06/29/2012 2:36:56 PM PDT by tselatysr
The money quote from the post above, we need to vote the right people in and not wait for the court to rule in our favor
“The only hopeful aspect of the ObamaCare decision is that it may encourage greater wisdom in electing our CongressCritters and Presidents. I hate to end on a sour note, but how likely does that seem?”
Mandatory voting?
Roberts should know that his first responsibility is to the U.S. Constitution, not if a law was legally passed. Right now he’s just another liberal “drunk on power” in my opinion.
All bills regarding taxation are required by the constitution to initiate in the House. The ACA initiated in the Senate. It’s an illegal bill now that this bill contains taxation as ruled by SCOTUS.
Is that the ploy?
Look at it this way -
One man, through his convoluted reasoning, just made a decision that will guarantee the country incur so much debt that it will end up destroying the dollar and will continue Obama’s destruction of the middle class.
ONE MAN!
It was legally passed, we got outvoted by the Democrat majority and the SC said it only stands as a TAX, not a penalty!!
HE made them come clean about what it really is and the answer is to vote Republican and get rid of the “tax”
So all of us need to get off our collective butts and vote!
Look on the bright side. Those anti-Republican guys like Ron Paul? Happily their philosophy didn’t advance with this ruling. Thank G-d we have real conservative Republicans appointing strict Constitutionalist to the court, otherwise the jihadis may kill us for our freedoms.
Congress can make a law, but even a Chief Justice can not. Now we will see an attempt to create such law, but it cannot be created, as this House of Reps won't pass such law.
Roberts made things much worse than if he has simply voted against this monster, and kept his conservative credentials, which he has now destroyed.
Roberts changed us from a republic to a democracy.
HE made them come clean about what it really is and the answer is to vote Republican and get rid of the “tax”
So all of us need to get off our collective butts and vote!
GREAT! So we cashed in our Republic for democratic mob rule. So long as 50% + 1 vote for it, the 50% - 1 are just screwed? Then the Constitution and rule of law mean nothing.
What a country, comrade!
In reality that is already happening. Buy a Chevy Volt and get a tax credit. Buy a gas powered car and don’t get a tax credit.
I actually think Roberts lost his mind. He voted the exacty opposite of what he said during oral arguments. Or was the solicitor general better than people thought.
And BUSHBOT to the end supporters of "W"'s man both in the media and FR are defending, making excuses, & spinning, Robert's actions to death as some positive act on his part. Roberts is a LIBERAL who was appointed by a Liberal.
All I know for sure is that the members of the Executive, the Legislative and Judicial branches of government are all exempt from this horrendous law and only the drones must worry about it. The definition of that is an oligarchy...
So its debtors prison for a debt you did not make.
“The only hopeful aspect of the ObamaCare decision is that it may encourage greater wisdom in electing our CongressCritters and Presidents. I hate to end on a sour note, but how likely does that seem?”If we don't, we'll get the government we deserve.
-- John Adams, An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, 1763 "A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction." -- Fisher Ames"[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few."
All this attention on Roberts. There are 4 or 5 others on that court that shouldn’t be there. It was just a matter of time.
The Court cites no case where the power to tax a purchase has encompassed the power to tax for not making a purchase. Indeed, it explicitly equated the non-purchase of gasoline to the taxable purchase of gasoline.
If the failure to buy something is taxable, as the decision holds, how about the failure to buy approved mothers' day presents, to buy approved solar power equipment or to install approved home insulation? Can non-actions not involving purchases be taxed? The failure to vote, perhaps? Even the failure to vote for approved candidates? I don't know. No constitutional limits are suggested by the decision.
The problems created by the decision cannot be cured simply by repealing ObamaCare or by electing good people to the Congress or to the Presidency (good things all). Even if that helps temporarily, there is no reason to assume that it will work indefinitely. We have a problem and there may be no viable solution.
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