A little thing, perhaps, but this caught my eye over at Betsy’s Page:
Now that Obamacare has become Obamatax…
After all, the Supremes (a la Chief Justice Roberts made it so) have made it simply a taxing offense (“According to the CBO, the Obamatax may amount to $1.7 trillion over a decade.”)…
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A friend of mine asked:
Now that Obamacare has been ruled valid, are Republicans ready for Tenth Amendment solutions like the Health Care Compact?
My response :
Wrong first question.
First Question: are Republicans willing to man up sufficiently to grow TWO pair each first???
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Facebook Doodlings: A friend asked me this question:
This morning the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of upholding the Affordable Care Act. Do you support the court’s decision?
Response:
It shows that Legislators need to be mindful of what is Constitutional from the Founders original intent BEFORE setting fingers to keyboards to write law – and what happens when they don’t. THIS shows that we cannot be in a state where the Supremes are the “last backstop” to save us from the idiocy of the Legislators.
But the real problem is that WE (as a whole) have allowed Legislators (Rs & Ds) to travel down this road from FDR times. This should be a wakeup call, as we have now arrived at a state where “Freedom to Choose” is merely a sub-clause of tax policy (instead of from our Creator).
Roberts: It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.
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From The Corner – reminding Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg that she will be reminded of her words later on:
I suspect you will be hearing it frequently in reference to the pending lawsuits against the Department of Health and Human Services in response to its contraception/sterilization/abortion-inducing drug mandate that erodes religious liberty in the United States:
A mandate to purchase a particular product would be unconstitutional if, for example, the edict impermissibly abridged the freedom of speech, interfered with the free exercise of religion, or infringed on a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.
