Obamacare should now be renamed, Robertscare. Additionally, it should just be simple that Roberts’ interpretation of the constitution was collectivist, i.e. company should carry rights like an individual, and then the government should have the full authority on individual health insurance choices. Pretty much government monopoly, plus an addition to the deficit, which the left feigned care about anyways.
All the R’s need is 51 to repeal it not 60. So all we have to do is go out and vote an Obamacare is gone.
You don't own your body.
You owe the feral government for it's upkeep.
The title isn’t quite right. They ruled that Obamacare WAS a tax, not necessarily that it was a permissible one....or did I not get that correct?
And I would be quite thankful for any legal scholar who can point me to the grant of authority in the constitution which would allow any judge anywhere to re-write a law.
I have been reading that document for many years now but seem to have missed that part. Perhaps that to is in the penumbra! I admit to have a great deal of difficulty in reading those!
You know the country has gone to **** when the morons on Barry’s Supreme Court start placing new taxes on the American people. This WASN’T a tax until that dumbass Roberts made it so.
“Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the Court, held while the “individual mandate is not a valid exercise of Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause,” it is valid as an exercise of the taxing power granted the federal government by the Constitution.”
VALID, TAXING POWER, BY CONSTITUTION
ILLITERATE, WRONG
The Bill and its Taxing Power originated in the Senate, not the House. That is NOT the way it works under the Constitution, Judge Roberts.
United States of America. You’re getting smaller in my rear view mirror and I won’t be home no more.
/johnny
This supposedly was decided months ago not yesterday
Did not the conservatives on the court try and talk sense to Roberts in that time frame
“The states, through the exercise of the Tenth Amendment and their natural right to rule as sovereign entities, may stop ObamaCare at the state borders by enacting state statutes nullifying the healthcare law and criminalizing state participation in administering or executing the unconstitutional provisions thereof.”
God willing, this is already the mandate of many States.
My heart is in compete & enthusiastic agreement with the notion that we demand our Liberty or Death!
So let me get this right. The fact that the Obamanation insisted from the start that it wasn’t a tax should have had no bearing on the court’s (primarily Roberts’) decision that it was a tax?
Paying a tax for me to pay for someone’s abortion is against my conscience.
So what do we do? File a class-action suit?
"In order to help lower the costs of law enforcement that effect everyone, every able bodied male between the ages of 21 and 65 will, by Jan 1, 2013, arm himself with a handgun and 50 rounds of ammunition or pay a $50 fine."
This ruling makes that possible.
They're just imitating Obama. If he can legislate via EO's, why shouldn't Roberts, et al legislate from the bench? /s
Obama and his Supreme Court lapdogs render Congress irrelevant.
Can Roberts show me where in his job description it says he’s free to revamp a case presented to the court? No, I didn’t think so.
Has anyone mentioned how much the tax will be? I have heard comments all day from people saying, “Well, if I don’t want to have health insurance, the fine will still be cheaper than health insurance would cost.” Really?? How do we know that??
The problem for Romney is that he levied a tax on Massachussets people with his “Romneycare.” He used to call it a “fee, not a tax,” but according to Justice Roberts it was a tax.
So why don’t we take control of congress and the Presidency and force everyone to purchase:
A firearm for each adult member of the family that can legally own a firearm
365 days worth of food for each member of the family
A portable generator
etc