You can't mandate that we eat broccoli, but you can tax us if we don't (vanity)

[teg_76]

There was nothing positive in this for our side, regardless of some of the articles trying to spin it that way.

Thanks John Roberts. We wouldn't want you to tarnish your "legacy" with the liberal media.

Thank GW Bush for nominating Roberts.

Why do the liberal appointees never disappoint their side? Why aren't all of our nominees reliable, like the liberals?

[the invisib1e hand]

title: very well said.

[GOPJ]

Because they ask for ‘kickbacks’ - we ask for integrity...

Democrats make no pretense of believing in the Constitution - they believe in getting their way and consolidating power. We're trying to keep the country and freedoms we love - we're playing on different fields/

[hosepipe]

Roberts is out of the closet.....
playing pocket pool with the democrats...

[ez]

Because the natural order of things is that government always grows bigger and more socialist until it fails. It happened to Rome, it happened to Britain, and now it’s happening to America. No judge, President, or voter can do anything to stop it. imho...

[Tellurian]

The Obamacare tax is a healthcare jizya - instead of a tax for not accepting the subjugation of islam, it’s a tax for not accepting government mandated healthcare.

[KTM rider]

the issue of funding socialist healthcare is not even the supreme courts business, it is a moot point !

the issue in play is that it is not in the enumerated powers so it should have been overturned as unconstitutional , PERIOD ! simple as that !

[Mr Ramsbotham]

It’s because the left-wing idealogues come in declaring that they’re left-wing idealogues and intend to vote as such. Whereas conservatives tend to be objective, and how can you be objective if you never side with the opposition?

[BornToBeAmerican]

As Roberts said, elections have consequences. Do you really think a tax that no one wants, on NATIONAL health care that no one wants is going to stand? WHY the doom and gloom. This tax is joke. The dem’s are refusing to call it a tax but rather a penalty, something Roberts said was illegal. It's going to die by the will of the people and not the Court and that is a very good thing.

[funfan]

I recall in the debates right before the 2008 election Obama was challenging Clinton on the mandate and I believe he said the mandate was unfair because you could tax people or penalize people for no insurance and they would be fined but still not be able to pay for insurance so they would still have no insurance. This is what I fear will happen to me. I wish I could find that clip. Obama is a liar

[Smokin' Joe]

Just wait until they start taxing people for not earning money. It’s coming, citizen!

[RightFighter]

You’re almost right. It’s because the judges appointed by Republicans always have to be blank slates who are devoid of any controversial opinions that might indicate that they would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. So, we don’t know who they really are going in, and we should never be surprised, if we allow the left to force us to pick judges that way, when the judges we pick turn out not to be what we thought they “might” be.

[Vesparado]

Despite the Chief Justice’s rather cursory and shallow analysis, it seems to me that if a tax, it is a direct tax. It certainly isn’t an income tax (which is permitted only because the 16th amendment includes an explicit waiver of the proportionment requirement), despite the fact that the IRS administers it.

It isn’t an excise tax (or luxury or sin tax) as these apply to the seller, not the buyer.

And, in all of the above examples, what is taxed is something that actual happens (sale of a good or service, earning income or dividends, etc. This is a “tax” on nothing other than existing.

So, I’m left with the conclusion that it is a direct tax (for not doing something) which does not pass Constitutional muster.

[funfan]

What do you know I just found the clip I was looking for of Obama saying it is wrong to be forced to pay a fine to have insurance but still not be able to buy inurance. This is what I see happening to myself

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/03/25/flashback_obama_criticized_clinton_for_proposing_health_care_mandate.html

[Mygirlsmom]

government always grows bigger and more socialist until it fails

Save for one exception...."When in the course of human events...."

[tsowellfan]

[The Great RJ]

If the government is worried about obesity just slap on a fat surtax with income tax filers having to provide certified scale readings along with their 1040 form.

[P.O.E.]

That’s NOT what will happen.

Oh, they’ll tax you alright, and probably give away free broccoli to the poor, elderly, minorities, transgendered or whatever other fictional “group-rights” recipients they can concoct and parade around.

They will hire their buddies to run the broccoli collection and distribution pipeline.

And they will spend the extra tax money elsewhere.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Negative Tax.

Next is Negative Tax increases.

[conservative sympathizer]

People already pay more in taxes for:

• not having children
• not going to school
• not improving the energy efficiency of their home
• not paying enough interest on their mortgage

Mathematically a deduction for one group is no different than an increase on everyone else that can't take the deduction. Everyone of us that doesn't get some special deduction from the government is penalized for not doing that thing required to receive the deduction.