What if congress passes a bill that said if is a man you do not marry another man then you must pay a tax?
What if congress passes a bill that says if as a woman you do not marry another woman then you must pay a tax?
What if congress passes a bill that states that if you do not abort your second child you must pay a tax?
What if congress passes a bill that says if a white person does not abort their first child then they must pay a tax?
WHat John Roberts did was give the us federal government unlimited power.
They can make us do whatever the hell they want, and they are sick, twisted, evil people.
WHat John Roberts did was give the us federal government unlimited power.
They can make us do whatever the hell they want, and they are sick, twisted, evil people.
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It has been that way for a while. The mask is off, and all pretense otherwise is gone now. In a way, that is better. It brings us back to the truth of Reagan, which for over two decades has been muffled and hidden by neocon Republicans:
Government is not the solution. Government is the problem.
If we get a Congress that does any of these things, don't expect SCOTUS to bail us out. That is the whole point of the decision. Besides, I don't think a Congress that passes anything as egregious as your examples will survive another election. I think most people here are missing that point. Weilding taxing power opens up Congress to defend something people understand and instinctively revolt againt. Hiding behind the Commerce Clause or the N&P CLause is opaque, most people don't know what it means, and Congress can slip a backdoor legislation through those clauses. Much harder to pass a new tax.