Posted on 03/21/2010 6:52:09 PM PDT by Bratch
If the states called a constitutional convention then this crap could be reigned in very quickly.
I'm so glad that this provision is in there as well. This is reflective of one of my HUGE hangups with respect to the "Amish exception" for Social Security.
For the first time in 70 years, we have a Supreme Court that might just use the 14th Amendment against libs.
They're going to exempt someone based on religious preference? How does that not violate the establishment clause under 1st Amendment and the equal protection clause under the 14th?
They're codifying a religious preference. It can't be anymore clear.
Thanks, just did.
So, now that we know it is all about meeting some 'qualified health insurance program', who do we have to go to for the qualifications? Hmmmmm, let me guess, maybe the big fat communist in charge of this whole thing? Give us a frickin break, don't you think we the people can discernce from whence the crap floweth?
D.C. (doing communism)
“Harvard, Yale. Typical.”
When the Civil War starts we give them the Sherman treatment.
So I guess we should plan on such a tax. It might raise a lot of money, particularly if it is extended to include membership in groups with similar liberal tendencies.
There have been more than the required 2/3rds of States with applications to Congress to call an Article V Convention. Presently, there are already more than the required 34 States with applications for several subjects, including Tax Limitation, Balanced Budget, and Apportionment.
Congress has simply ignored the fact. They’ve been round filed by the Judiciary Committee in the Senate.
There are currently 38 States who’ve announced their intention to fight this mandate. What are the odds, the GOP in Congress would take this opportunity with all eyes on Congress and the flouting of the Constitution to demand recognition of the calls for an Article V Convention ?
Would those 38 States that are mouthing objections at this point go so far as to get their legislatures to send a unified call for an Article V Convention to consider an Amendment barring the Federal government from requiring an individual to purchase or penalizing a failure to purchase any good or service ?
“The mandate would not apply to dependents, persons receiving Medicare or Medicaid, military families, persons living overseas, persons with religious objections, or persons who already get health insurance from their employers under a qualified plan.”
This is not entirely true, since any existing plan — especially HSA plans with high deductible — will not meet the government requirements. So they will, in fact, be forced to buy a new product.
And what constitutes valid “religious objections” ? Have they spelled out Quakers, and Amish, and Seventh Day Adventists, and Christian Scientists ? Or can anybody claim this exemption ?
I don’t give a damn how you label the 2.5% of income that you must pay if you aren’t in a “qualified” plan - it is a FINE. The government is telling you that you must buy a particular product, or you will pay.
Oh, and if you don’t pay the tax/fine/whatever the phuk they choose to call it, YOU GO TO PRISON.
Guess what: don’t go to prison (i.e. try to stay free and resist arrest), and they send a bunch of armor-clad JBTs and KILL YOU.
What’s next? Buy a Government Motors car every 3 years, or face a fine, err, excuse me, a “tax?” Get a mortgage every 7 years from Fannie or Freddie, or face a fine, err, excuse me, a “tax?” Where does it end? Can they f’ing government force you to spend every single penny of your after-tax money on “qualified” plans of one kind or another?
So much for the Constitution and our Republic. It is gone. They’ve been deathly ill for quite some time, and Obami & Pelosi just pulled the plug with extreme prejudice.
That hag says health insurance is a “right.” Horse$hit, a right is something that you have just because you are a human being, something that is independent of what others will give you. However, you have no right to a particular good or service that is paid for by others (especially on pain of fines or prison) - that is just another name for slavery. Good old Dems, still advocating for slavery in the 21st Century.
I refuse to believe that this bill can make it against the law to insure yourself! What have we come to????
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