Posted on 06/28/2012 12:28:33 PM PDT by abigail2
Supreme Court's Obamacare decision hands federal government unlimited power to force you to spend 100% of your paycheck on things you don't even want by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Regardless of whether you agree with the fundamentals of Obamacare, the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court has now ruled the federal government has the power to tax Americans into mandatory purchases of private industry products means an end to economic freedom in America. Why? Because it hands the federal government the power to force the American people to buy anything the government wants or face tax penalties for refusing to do so. It is the equivalent of announcing a federal monopoly over all private purchasing decisions.
"The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts, in his majority opinion. "Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness."
Thus, the government can force Americans to buy anything it wants by simply characterizing the forced payment as a "tax."
Economic freedom crushed by Supreme Court This article is not an argument so much about Obamacare itself, by the way; it's a red alert about a fundamental loss of economic freedom -- a shifting of private purchasing decisions to Washington D.C. Now, buoyed by the passage of Obamacare, the U.S. government can (and will) create new mandates that, for example, would force Americans to buy all the following:
A new car each year from Detroit, in order to "boost the U.S. auto industry."
• War bonds to "support the war effort."
• A year's supply of vaccines.
• Life insurance from the government's "approved" sources.
• Lawn fertilizer (the "lawn health care mandate").
• Intellectual property such as patented human genes already in your body.
There is no limit to the reach of the Supreme Court's wild misinterpretation of the Commerce Clause, it seems. So now, all Americans can expect to get ready for the federal government to start laying out a long list of products and services we will all be taxed into buying from the crony capitalist buddies of those in power.
Government hands economic monopoly to Big Pharma and the vaccine industry Perhaps the worst side effect is that Obamacare isn't really about health care at all. It's about protecting a Big Pharma monopoly over medicine; forcing consumers to buy into a system that offers zero coverage for alternative medicine, nutritional therapies, natural remedies or the healing arts.
If Obamacare actually offered consumers a free market choice of where to get services, it would be a lot more balanced and effective. Instead, it forces consumers to buy into a system of monopoly medicine of drugs and surgery that would flat-out collapse if not for the monopolistic protections granted to the industry by the government itself.
If given a free choice, most consumers prefer complementary medicine than straight-up "drugs and surgery" medicine, but complementary medicine isn't covered under Obamacare. The law is really just another corrupt, criminal-minded handout to the drug industry. And now, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, you can't even opt out!
Abuse of power by the federal government knows no bounds
That's the real kicker in all this: No more opting out of the private purchasing demands of the federal government! Americans are being pick-pocketed at an alarming rate, and it's only going to get worse now that this power has been unwisely handed to the federal government by a short-sighted Supreme Court.
Because long after Obama is gone, other Presidents -- from any political party -- will abuse this precedent to force Americans into buying any number of products, services, or even intellectual property that we don't want. There is now no limit to what the federal government can force you to buy by calling it a "tax."
Note, carefully, there is NO LIMIT to this "taxing" power. If you bring home a monthly paycheck of, for example, $3,000, the U.S. government can now mandate that you spend $2,999 of that on various products and services that it deems you must have "for your own protection." You no longer control your own take-home pay! The government can force you to spend it on things you don't want or even need!
America, it seems, is starting to sound a whole lot like England under King George. Soon, we'll be living under our own modern Stamp Act from 1765, which eventually led to the American Revolution. Learn your history! As Wikipedia explains: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765)
The Stamp Act 1765 (short title Duties in American Colonies Act 1765; 5 George III, c. 12) was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. These printed materials were legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies. Like previous taxes, the stamp tax had to be paid in valid British currency, not in colonial paper money. The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after the British victory in the Seven Years' War. The British government felt that the colonies were the primary beneficiaries of this military presence, and should pay at least a portion of the expense.
The Stamp Act met great resistance in the colonies. The colonies sent no representatives to Parliament, and therefore had no influence over what taxes were raised, how they were levied, or how they would be spent. Many colonists considered it a violation of their rights as Englishmen to be taxed without their consent -- consent that only the colonial legislatures could grant. Colonial assemblies sent petitions and protests. The Stamp Act Congress held in New York City, reflecting the first significant joint colonial response to any British measure, also petitioned Parliament and the King. Local protest groups, led by colonial merchants and landowners, established connections through correspondence that created a loose coalition that extended from New England to Georgia. Protests and demonstrations initiated by the Sons of Liberty often turned violent and destructive as the masses became involved. Very soon all stamp tax distributors were intimidated into resigning their commissions, and the tax was never effectively collected.
Opposition to the Stamp Act was not limited to the colonies. British merchants and manufacturers, whose exports to the colonies were threatened by colonial economic problems exacerbated by the tax, also pressured Parliament. The Act was repealed on March 18, 1766 as a matter of expedience, but Parliament affirmed its power to legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" by also passing the Declaratory Act. There followed a series of new taxes and regulations, likewise opposed by the colonists.
The episode played a major role in defining the grievances and enabling the organized colonial resistance that led to the American Revolution in 1775.
Yes, I was going to post the same...The Stamp Act.
How long before they Stamp the palm or forehead? “Approved healthy”.
And dwell on how many like Roberts and the rest, minds are operating in same manner.
Today's ruling was based on a lawsuit that 0bamacare violates the commerce clause, so.. Another multi-state lawsuit should be forthcoming which sues the Feds for TAXING inactivity.
Since Roberts redefined 0bamacare, 26 States will simply have to redefine their lawsuit. Makes sense, right?
Roberts says
“The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax’
“May reasonably be characterized” means he was stretching the truth.
He could have done that by voting with the four dissenters and killing ObamaCare dead!!!
It’s ‘Robertscare’ now. He bought it. He owns it.
You are unhinged, really.
Who is your back up genius?
3rd party?
You do yourself and your small faction of misguided fools, no favors. Clear thinking people KNOW there is no choice.
Now, keep yapping and beating that damn drum you carry around your neck. I for one will continue to point out that your comments don’t do a damn thing to change WHAT IS.
The house has burnt down and instead of standing there pointing fingers, get busy rebuilding the house or get out of the freakin way.
I’m SICK TO DEATH of you anti-Romney small minded slugs.
GIVE US A SOLUTION if this is such a non-starter for you guys.
I will NEVER comment to you again, it’s you and your type that incite those of us who deal in REALITY.
Another colossal W Bush F-up.
Quit blaming Bush! You people sound just like liberals. “Waaa,,,everything is Bush’s fault,,,waaa!” News flash,,,the best Bush could do was appoint someone who he thought would ALWAYS vote conservative. The SC does things to appointees. Solidly conservative appointees may turn liberal. Solidly liberal appointees may turn more conservative. They have minds of their own. THERE IS NO GUARANTEE how they will be once they are on the court. So quit your liberal “it’s all Bush’s fault” imitations and put the blame where it belongs,,,,ON ROBERTS!!!
Hopefully it will not take nine years for us to take action this time. Enough is enough!
Stop sticking up for Bush. He was supposed to be our conservative friend, but he is just another state control freak. The Patriot Act is anything but. It’s not liberal to just point out his failings. He suckered most conservative in.
Now how do we get rid of the POS Roberts as well as the CLEARLY-TO-ANYONE-WITH-TWO-BRAIN-CELLS unconstitutional Obamacare?
Can Roberts be recalled/impeached? Appointed for life? The answer is here somewhere.
Hopefully November will be kind to us.
Emperor John proclaims a believe in the despotism of democracy.
The great irony being the Forefathers told us that the Constitution was meant to prevent such “democratic choices” from robing people of their reserved rights. Now that Constitution is dead thanks to John. The fate of the associated Obamacare is thus now irrelevant, as the formerly free people who were threatened by it are now also threaten bt a thousand other potential evils even greater.
The house is indeed burnt down but in your hast to rebuild you seem to have overlooked the fact that the foundation upon which it once stood is similarly destroyed.
John Roberts saw to that by declaring such a tax power to exist. We can repeal Obamacare but something else will just as quickly pop up using the same power.
The only way forward is revolution. A new foundation in liberty must be layed, perhaps on he cleared out runes of this empire, perhaps elsewhere.
To put this in English: The Federal Government(as it exist under Roberts) must be abolished and either abandoned or completely rebuilt.
My haste? Really?!
Let me try it this way -
working in my community to wake people up to all that has
crumbled, we succeeded in getting a flipping 10% of our township to vote for a new mayor. Needless to say, the
thief was re-elected. We had more success with our conservative Congress choices.
Now, please inform me how you intend to get people inspired to burn down everything and trust that your vision of rebuilding is something they are willing to risk themselves over?
We can all rant and rave and yap about CWII and all that nonsense, the truth of the matter is you are no more capable of creating that reality than I am.
Yes the foundation is rotten to the core, but with decent people who ARE willing to dig in and lay a new brick, the foundation can be rebuilt.
I would respect you far more if you didn’t attempt to talk to me as if I had no clue as to how dire this situation is,
I am fully informed and choose to face the reality as it stands.
"a general reticence to invalidate the acts of the nation's elected leaders."
Really -- the Courts have been doing it for 200 years -- why now and why this???
"It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices," he wrote.
It certainly is. Have you checked out your job description lately or the Constitution that you took an oath to defend or are you experiencing early dementia or Benedict Arnold complex???
Is Congress' power to tax really unlimited? For example, if Congress passed a $10,000 per-gun, per-year tax on firearm ownership (effectively making gun ownership impossible for a majority of the citizenry) would that be a legitimate tax function of the Congress or a violation of the Second Amendment?
Unlimited Power to Force You to Buy What They Want You to Buy
They’ve been doing that for decades.
You think I want to buy food, housing, legal help, etc. for millions of people SCAMMING the welfare system with duplicate names, addresses, etc., many of them not even legal residents?
You think I want to send millions to totalitarians and tribalists across the globe?
You think I want to send untold billions to crony capitalists?
This is nothing new. And it sucks.
I suppose this November is when we find out how many Americans still value freedom.
Do not doubt that the next thing they will come for is your savings, if you have any.
They are already bankrupt.
Since they can now tax ANYTHING, your 401Ks, IRAs, etc. will be the next target. They need the money to pay for the welfare state, and buy votes.
You will be told that not only are you too stupid to decide what kind or type of medical insurance you need, you are also too stupid to invest your own savings. The government will force you to convert your savings to a government annuity, for your own financial “safety”, of course. Or, if you don’t, you will be charged a “penalty” or a “tax” for not complying.
And your principle will be put into a “lock box” just like your social security payments were (LOL,,r-i-g-h-t), to be rolled into the general fund to pay for Obamacare, and other vote buying schemes.
They’ve already had comittees recommend doing this. SCOTUS just green-lighted the effort for the progressives.
The coming election may well be one of our last chances to stem the progressive tide.
Vote like your future depends on it, because it truly does.
Very few, I'm afraid....they are more into "Gimme Gimme Gimme!"
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