Posted on 06/29/2012 4:14:31 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
This decision has vastly expanded the government’s taxing power. This is a tax in the abstract. The congress could pass a tax that everyone must buy a GM car next year and those that don’t will pay a tax. Not just those who bought a Ford, Honda or something else, but anybody that did not buy a car, period.
Imagine taxing kids who go to private schools. Any school age child that does not attend public school must pay a tax. Not a tax on private schools but a tax on the inaction of not attending a public school.
How about a tax on high school graduates that don’t join the military?
I hate the tax code, but we have gone from taxing commerce, income and certain excises on property, to taxing a negative or an inaction.
“I seem to remember certain Excise taxes were repealed”
Ok, which ones? When?
“And how is it Roberts fault that congress who they people vote for don’t do it”
I never said it was. I’m just asking the question, because if we are to console ourselves that Congress can repeal it, we might want to look at Congress’ history to see how likely that will be. If the history reveals it’s not likely at all, then it’s little consolation.
“In addition as I keep posting the GOP called Obama and the democrats liars because in reality it was a tax and Roberts agreed OR was that not the case —your answer please”
The job of the GOP and the job of the Supreme Court are different. The GOP’s job is to campaign against its political opponents, and the Supreme Court’s job is to determine whether a law is Constitutional as it is written. The GOP can say that a law is effectively a tax, even though it’s not written as one, since that is well within the scope of political campaigning. If the Supreme Court does that, then it’s an improper abuse of their office.
But- that is not his JOB. His job is to rule on the law as it is written- lies, distortions and all. He CREATED a new way to tax citizens. THAT is the issue.
I’m less interested in how the liberals lied and more in how the court invented.
With God, all things are possible. Without Him, no good can occur.
Says it all. Nothing else needs saying.
Period.
You can throw Law Professor Hugh Hewitt in the mix...Levin interviewed him and neither could make any sense out of what happened.
What you say about the media is correct. What you say about hurting Obama in November is probably also correct.
Doesn’t change the fact that this ruling, on the issue of law, is awful. It is not the job of a Justice to set things in motion so that the media and the election ends up with just rewards by perverting the law. That’s a fabulists view and it’s ridiculous.
Amen brother and we will NEVER forget it either.
LLS
A tax on what?
“So you are saying the GOP was lying and Obama wasn’t”
I didn’t say that. The GOP said it was effectively a tax, even though it’s not written as such. The court, on the other hand, can’t rule on the law as it is not written, it must rule on the law as it is written.
WWII?
Yeah, that’s real comforting.
LLS
“In other words any law can be written by calling it something it isn’t ?”
Huh? I don’t know where you got that from what I said. The court rules on the law as it is written, not on what someone else says it is, that’s all.
For example, I can say that the Treasury printing money excessively is effectively a tax, since they are devaluing our currency. However, the law that authorizes them to print money doesn’t all of the sudden fall under the taxation powers just because I have made that argument. If I were to challenge the law that allows the Treasury to do that in court, the court should rule on the letter of the law, not on my implications as to the effect of the law.
It does matter
If it is a tax it is a tax no matter what they called it
But that doesn’t mean that there still weren’t aspects that weren’t unconstitutional —I would like to see arguments from that facet—in other words yes it is a tax but it is still unconstitutional because————————
Did Scalia present that rational in his dissent —I don’t know I am asking or did he say it wasn’t a tax
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