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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.
New bricks? Where do we find theses new bricks, how do we install them? the path toward separation and Independence is clear. To burn down a house that is already burning is not so difficult a thing to accomplish.
As for trusting anyone on the new foundation that is a bridge we have yet to cross, and hopefully one we shall see and time before us to layout carefully.
As to your fruitless community efforts, I can only say I sympathies with your plite as I see it being the future of all our plites should we remain united with such a universality corrupt population as that which perhaps dominates your city, and certant areas of theses “united States”.
It is my opinion that once men have been made so depended upon the explosive and thieving machine that is big governed their souls having been lost their body serve only the evil that is the machine.
The city of Sodom that is your home perhaps cannot be saved, you should in my humble opinion look to your options to make like Lot and leave. As a Civilization it seem increasingly likely that we will have to do like wise(thou Revolution(IE: Secession)).
That is the point that is being made here.
Got it, so I have a couple choices here.
I can pick up and leave my home, friends and family due to the ‘plight’ of having failed at electing a more honorable mayor. Hmmmm, let me think about this....I can stay and work towards change, or cut bait and run, do I have that right?
The bricks are a metaphor and you get ‘them’ with decent people who are ready and willing to do the work to rebuild.
When you make a judgement that ‘man’ has collectively ‘sold his soul’, all I can only react with dismay. I hardly see our nation through that lens and 2010 being at least some measure of how dead wrong I believe you to be.
So, when you get your revolution going, let us know - I’m sure many would join up, but until then, it’s just idle chatter.
Bankrupt perhaps beyond redemption. Most people, companies, etc. in such straits can trim expenses, get a second job, and so on. The government cannot cut its major expenses without significant social disruption.
After this decision, it’s not hard to imagine a time when there is a 10,000 dollar tax on couples who have more than one kid (because extra kids destroy the environment) or a tax on anyone who breathes (because the government needs money to keep that air clean).
It's the muslim model of life. The Sister/Brotherhood agents in the executive branch must have explained how it works. Pay the tax or die.
Islam, bringing the kind of peace the elite understand.
Thank you for the ping Ms. Abigail, I appreciate them all, even if I forget to give credit where it’s due. I appreciate all of your pings over these last few years, may God help us all, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Wow, I needed that tonite...thank you, my pleasure : )
Abusing power has nothing to do with the fact that the power is theirs in the first place.
Abusing power has nothing to do with the fact that the power is theirs in the first place.
Congress does *not* have unlimited taxation power. They have the authority to raise taxes only to achieve what is necessary and proper to fulfill their specifically enumerated powers.
In other words, the Constitution does not give Congress authority to raise revenues for anything other than what the Constitution specifically charges the Congress to do. I have yet to find where the Constitution lists health care among the specific enumerated powers of the Federal Government.
This superb post explains it much better than I can:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2900736/posts?page=191#191
the socialist parasite devours every last morsel of individual liberty until there is nothing left but a decomposed shell as in the case of Europe
What will not happen is a tax on anyone in Islam
or on Any MEMBER of Congress. Just like oBAMAcare.
These bastards have ruined “ALL EQUAL UNDER THE LAW”.
BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!!!
Individual states can opt out if they wish to.
Wisconsin says they will ignore Obamacare.
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Hey BuckeyeTexan. Can a Supreme Court Justice, particularly a Chief Justice, be impeached?
Yes. Justice Samuel Chase was impeached in 1805. If a Supreme Court justice was impeached right now, particularly Chief Justice Roberts, and the Senate voted to remove him, a vacancy would occur and Obama would name his successor.
Thanks BillyBoy. Doh! Very shallow thinking on my part. No wonder no one is bringing it up.
How many fruitnuts voted for the jackwagon?
That’s right, the evil Republicans kill children, grandparents, and poison the waters...
All you liberal lurkers... do you really believe we right-wingers are against liberty? Wake the # up!
Roberts should admit his failings and resign.
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
Don't ask me what I want it for
If you don't want to pay some mor
e 'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
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