Doug along with other friends have called or left messages today, all expressed anger or exasperation with the Supreme Court decision upholding ObamaCare. Does it help that the court labeled it a Tax instead of a power under the Commerce Act? 
Today marks a sad day in the history of America. With this decision, Americans have lost the right to be left alone, which Justice William O. Douglas once called “the beginning of all freedom.”
If, at the end of this day, the House is unable or unwilling to move to uphold the rule of law against the out of control Obama White House Red Shed, then the truth of Karen Harned‘s option piece on this ruling will be even more true.
We must now look forward, with great trepidation, into this brave new world, a world in which the Constitution has been undone, and federal power knows no limit. This is a day that our Founders would never have wanted to see. All that they had fought to secure and preserve has been lost.
A friend, a good man and even a person I respect for his service, said today that they prefer to see everyone “made” to have health insurance because otherwise everyone else has to pay for their treatment at the ER with higher costs.
I say, don’t talk money. Talk liberty. You can always make more money, you can’t have any more liberty.
I’m unclear on how I can be “taxed” on something I don’t buy; something I don’t do. I understand how I can be fined or forced to pay a penalty for failing to do something, but it seems to me that “taxation” is a different kind of pocket picking by the state.
If I earn nothing I pay no income tax. If I buy nothing I pay no sales tax. If I own nothing I pay no property tax. If, however, I do nothing I pay an Obamacare “tax” which is not part of the general pool of tax revenue. So is the new deal that I can be taxed simply for being born in America, just for existing as an American, for just standing around breathing? I guess so.
gerardvanderleun : June 28, 12
Hammer, Nail, On the head. Point goes to Vanderleun.
So, it’s a Tax. (Says the Supremes) What am I being Taxed for? Perhaps being healthy and NOT needing to buy insurance is now taxable, such as the tax discovered by many states and municipalities called, “Having a nice view“.
So, can I avoid the tax by ingesting plague germs? Breaking a leg? Voting Democratic? (The last one was a trick question).
As I have been laboring on this post in Washington D.C. a decision has been made…
So, the two things that we now have learned today; Obama has created a wholly new Tax on the American People, and the Chief of law enforcement in The United States of America is the first sitting Cabinet member to be held in contempt.
As my sidebar says, a legion of fools elected this Prince of Fools. Is this going to be enough to wake them up?
And on that note…
Below are two quotes from Chief Justice Roberts on the Supreme Court’s responsibility in handling the health care law.
“We do not consider whether the Act embodies sound policies. That judgment is entrusted to the Nation’s elected leaders.”
“Members of this Court are vested with the authority to interpret the law; we possess neither the expertise nor the prerogative to make policy judgments. Those decisions are entrusted to our Nation’s elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them. It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”
Adding this from Theo Spark…
By Alan Caruba
The Supreme Court decision on Obamacare confirmed that lies have triumphed over the Constitution. Continue reading →
“The energy needed to refute BS is of an order of magnitude greater than the effort needed to produce the BS in the first place. ”
On the North River 