http://www.ij.org/images/pdf_folder/amicus_briefs/obamacareamicus.pdf
The Institute for Justice is a great organization.
This amicus is not worth the bandwidth you used to post it.
Social Security was originally represented as a government mandated COMPULSORY social insurance annuity premium.
When FDR’s lawyers observed that the Social Insurance (aka social security) movement was in mortal danger of not passing constitutional muster in committee, and as FDR was in full panic mode as many New Deal programs were being thrown under the bus, FDR had his lawyers change his version of the proposed social insurance legislation to social security TAX.
Why is FDR relevant to Obamacare? Because the dems have been openly stating they used the FDR playbook in drafting the legislation and they deliberately included Tax Provisions in Sections 9005, 9015 and others to tax existing healthcare plans and to tax incomes and expand state medicaid.
I fully expect SCOTUS to throw a bone to voters, and to conservatives in Congress and in Statehouses by striking down the individual mandate BUT THEY WILL UP HOLD THE TAX PROVISIONS AS CONSTITUTIONAL UNDER THE 16TH AMENDMENT.
And with survival of Obamacare and its tax provisions, it will be only a matter of time before they destroy the private healthcare industry leaving nearly everyone to seek care under one of their offered expanded State Medicaid programs.
So forget these amicus busybodies, they are only churning noise in court. It is the 16th Amendment that is the Trojan Horse allowing statism to creep into American society.
16th Amendment is a 1913 class warfare artifact. It’s been a 100 year slow walk to legalizing full blown socialism in the USA.
Is there an alternative that does not require the 16th? Yes.
Read, study:
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_faq
We’re I a Communist...first thing I’d like to see is the death of contract law...to empowering of the individual.
Can’t assume these humanoids think anything at all like the rest of us.
A Contract of Adhesion...only by the authority to whom you would run to seek redress.
This drives a steak rigth int the heart of it.You can not be forced against your will to sign a contract.
This drives a steak right into the heart of it.You can not be forced against your will to sign a contract.
If I were a legal expert called to provide testimony for any legal hearing on the basic premise of this article, my testimony would be:
“Your Honor. No, duh!”
Contract? Everyone is talking about contracts. The powers that be will weasel-word their way around that and call whatever they come up with “compulsory.” They don’t need no stinkin’ “contracts.”
(I so hope I’m wrong)