While we're all crying into our coffee I'd just like to remind people that according to Justice Roberts, this is now officially a TAX. And not just any tax. President Obama, who is presiding over an economy with an 8%+ unemployment rate and middling growth, has just imposed the single largest middle class tax hike in US History, on his way into a reelection bid.
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Well since the top 10% pays more than the bottom 90% iI wonder where that $$ can come from..
Unless you figure out a way to penalize people for being fat none of this matters. You can threatin obesity with bullets(my first choice) or financial(make them pay more for insurance coverage etc) .. Neither will happen so all this law does is speed up our decline...
PREPPERS??????? To your bunkers!!!!!!!!
I am in the operating room this morning replacing total joints. My first two patients are under 50 years of age, both tipping the scaled north of 100 kilograms (withouth the height of Yao Ming). One of the patients has "retired" because he out in his time as an as a teaching assistant in the public sector. I know who is paying for this. Trust me, Americans of every stripe believe it is all free, or someone else's responsibility. Heath care costs will explode.
We are Greece in the making.
Tom . I thought of that also.. He will start out saying everything will be ok as long as we have Roberts as chief Justice to get us to 5-4............... MY Fuhrer.....Steiner........
Everyone who thought that Roberts was a conservative pick please leave.......
Here We go........Smith and Wesson just reports a blowout quarter,, stock up 13% in aftermarket...
They should send BHO a thank you card
Sorry handgun stuff is under a pix of Lincoln
I am curious what I resident legal beagle makes of this view:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/scocca/2012/06/roberts_health_care_opinion_commerce_clause_the_real_reason_the_chief_justice_upheld_obamacare_.html
The scholars expected to see the court gut existing Commerce Clause precedent and overturn the individual mandate in a partisan decision: Five Republican-appointed justices voting to rewrite doctrine and reject Obamacare; four Democratic-appointed justices dissenting.
Roberts was smarter than that. By ruling that the individual mandate was permissible as a tax, he joined the Democratic appointees to uphold the law—while joining the Republican wing to gut the Commerce Clause (and push back against the necessary-and-proper clause as well). Here's the Chief Justice's opinion (italics in original):
Construing the Commerce Clause to permit Congress to regulate individuals precisely because they are doing nothing would open a new and potentially vast domain to congressional authority. Congress already possesses expansive power to regulate what people do. Upholding the Affordable Care Act under the Commerce Clause would give Congress the same license to regulate what people do not do. The Framers knew the difference between doing something and doing nothing. They gave Congress the power to regulate commerce, not to compel it. Ignoring that distinction would undermine the principle that the Federal Government is a government of limited and enumerated powers. The individual mandate thus cannot be sustained under Congress’s power to “regulate Commerce.”
"If it's a tax, we can kill it!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNr0WXQ3Ho4
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