Dear Readers: The SoCal Tax Revolt Coalition, San Diego’s Tea Party group, has issued the following statement:
SAN DIEGO, CA – The Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition (SCTRC) condemns the Supreme Court of the United States ruling, which essentially upholds the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, also known as ObamaCare. At the present time, the interpretation of the complex decision seems to be that the individual mandate has been transformed into a tax and the rest of the challenged ObamaCare provisions now stand. The co-founders of SCTRC have issued the following statements:
Dawn Wildman, President of SCTRC: Today is the day American liberty died. I am in shock that the Supreme Court upheld this huge expansion of government overreach. But this will energize the base and makes November far more important than yesterday. When the government can force you to buy a product we have lost every liberty we once took for granted. I can see November from the Supreme Court!
Leslie Eastman, SCTRC Media Director: Basically, the US Supreme Court has said: “If you like your death panel, you can keep your death panel”. I cannot understate how disappointing it is to see that Chief Justice John Roberts decided to side with the big-government oriented justices, and merely amend the poorly written law developed by both houses of Congress. However, Roberts did leave us one clue on how we citizens can still fight back, as controlling healthcare is merely a front for controlling every other aspect of our lives. His decision includes this passage:
The Framers created a Federal Government of limited powers, and assigned to this Court the duty of enforcing those limits. The Court does so today. But the Court does not express any opinion on the wisdom of the Affordable Care Act. Under the Constitution, that judgment is reserved to the people.
We will be issuing that judgment on Nov. 6th of this year. SCOTUS has just lit a fire under every citizen activist I know. We will be at the polls in November, and that will be our judgement.
Sarah Bond, SCTRC Co-Founder: At this point, the solution can only be political. That means that our group, and Tea Party and Citizen Action organizations around the country, will focus on the fact that people will now be taxed. In a country facing the poorest recovery following a steep recession since the Great Depression, in which people are scrambling to find money for basics, having more money taken in taxes is not a great re-election platform. In fact, this represents the largest tax increase in American history! We will also identify candidates who will do what the Supreme Court failed to do – fully repeal Obamacare.
As Horemheb notes: Employers will NOT be hiring more, in light of the decision. There will be no gains in employment to run on.
As fellow SLOB WC Notes: Stock are tanking in wake of this decision.
UPDATE: Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh, formerly of Romania, details the horrors of free healthcare here: The Supremes Have Spoken
For those of you who think communist health care is great because it is free, you are right. You get free euthanasia, free medicine that is in short supply, free denial of service, free denial of necessary lab tests, free long wait for emergency medical procedures, free care for illegals that you subsidize, and free rationing of care based on age and insufficient funding. When that happens to you, remember that your vote had consequences, which you did not foresee when you were carried away by the promise of “free” and “social justice.”
I am so sad because I now have to live again in a communist state similar to that which I had fled from decades ago. I will be subjected to the horrors of socialized medicine again. I have experienced it firsthand and I know what it does to people, but I was outvoted by millions of ignorant Americans and useful idiots.
I can’t wait for the “individual mandate” of “tax” donations to the Obama campaign. I would name such a law, the Voter Protection and Fair Election Financing Act.
To all the Americans through history who have fought and died in the name of freedom, opportunity and justice, we are ashamed of our once great republic.
There is virtually nothing that the Federal government cannot force upon its citizens under the elastic right to tax or the elastic commerce clause. This is a huge step toward the tyranny of the central government. .
Bingo! Change the culture of America and you win. This just removes all hope that there will be adult supervision.
As far as I can see, there are two and only two health care innovations that have come from governemnt run health care.
1. Voluntary euthanasia. In the Netherlands and all of Europe.
2. Involuntary euthanasia. Being over 60 and being admitted to a hopital in The Netherlands or Britain is tantamount to receiving a death sentence.
All I can say is we’re finished.
As this unfolds one primary thing we outside govt must insist. Any govt. employee from whatever level or station shall be placed in obamacare. Period. No more Cadillac plans for them. Period.