To: joe fonebone
You are wrong. Prior to this decision, a tax was for the purpose of raising revenue.
Today, Roberts expanded that definition to call all the use of a tax to control personal conduct.
42 posted on
06/28/2012 3:18:36 PM PDT by
CharacterCounts
(A vote for the lesser of two evils only insures the triumph of evil.)
To: CharacterCounts
62 posted on
06/28/2012 4:39:28 PM PDT by
publius911
(Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
To: CharacterCounts; joe fonebone
You are wrong. Prior to this decision, a tax was for the purpose of raising revenue. You are the one who's wrong. To liberals, the purpose of tax is not to raise revenue, but to level the income playing field. "Fairness." Check out the way they dissemble like crazy whenever you point out the fact that increasing taxes on the higher earners actually reduces revenue. They leave the field of rational thought and point to "fairness."
The other poster (joe fonebone) is correct to point out the Congress has always been free to levy whatever tax they want, but it's extremely unpopular as a general proposition, so there is a natural firewall to it.
78 posted on
06/28/2012 5:51:01 PM PDT by
Cyber Liberty
(Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
To: CharacterCounts
107 posted on
06/29/2012 10:25:40 AM PDT by
glock rocks
(optimist / pessimist? I'm an awesomist - There's a dragon in that glass!)
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