Pelosi on jail time for no health insurance: "It's fair"

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[east1234]

voted=vote

[Eagle Eye]

After that we are out of options.

Says you.

[USMA '71]

So ... how long does everyone think it will take after this goes into effect for some patriot to defend himself through the use of arms in his own home when they come to get him????

[OrioleFan]

Anyone jailed for not buying PelosiCare coverage is considered a political prisoner.

[andy58-in-nh]

Do these people truly believe that the Federal Government of the United States has the power under our Constitution to force citizens to buy a product or service regardless of their desire to do so? Under what section of the Constitution is this purported power found? The "General Welfare clause", perhaps?

That's a battle I would love to bring before the Supreme Court, if only to determine once and for all that such a reading of that clause does violence to the rest of the document. It cannot be as open-ended as Congress has routinely read it, otherwise, what was the purpose of the frequent enumeration and delineation of powers throughout the Constitution? The Founders never intended this clause to be a "blank check", but rather a guideline naturally subject to all of the numerous limitations that followed.

Additionally, and as an expression of Federalism, state governments can and do mandate certain types of insurance coverage, but only to the extent that their own state constitutions allow it. The Federal government has no such power.

[Eagle Eye]

Wow.

Fantastic!

[CodeToad]

She should be jailed for sedition!

[RJS1950]

Besides congress which exempted themselves there is also the “other” privileged class — illegal aliens who will see no jail for not buying insurance but who will have it paid for by the rest of us.

[Frenchtown Dan]

What would really be “fair” would be for her to take a flying leap from a very high place.

[Westbrook]

To a totalitarian collectivist-statist like Nazi Pelousy, imprisoning and even humiliating, torturing, and executing counter-revolutionaries is always fair.

[madison10]

So the other option is to revoke my citizenship?

[stayathomemom]

For Christmas, I’m sending you to jail.

[Lady Jag]

Drug eating away her brain.

[reagan_fanatic]

This is the only arrest I want to see...

[Eagle Eye]

Al Pacino in “The Devil’s Advocate” was warning us.

Or was he taunting us?

[Thrownatbirth]

Run for your state legislature.

States can vote to opt-out of the bill entirely. McDonnell has promised VA will do just that.

[IYAS9YAS]

There is the Senate - then there is the Supreme Court. After that we are out of options.

Soapbox, ballot box, moving box, ammo box.

[Tax Government]

Requiring people to spend money is like requiring them to work...involuntary servitude.

[IYAS9YAS]

Sorry. That should have been: Soapbox, Ballot box, Jury box, Ammo box.

[madison10]

Those states may be the ones to which we all move.