Wednesday, April 4, 2012

It's a no-brainer

It's a no-brainer.
All you have to do is ask the question: "Does the federal government have the authority to force citizens to purchase a product they don't want?" The question answers itself: "Are you serious?"
How can anyone answer that question with "yes"?
If the government can order you to buy health insurance, where does it stop?
Sales of government-run and partially owned GM are down, plus the government wants to push a green agenda. No problem, dial up Congress. Make every family buy a Volt.
Obesity increases medical costs, affecting the wallet of every American. No problem, make everyone eat broccoli and join fitness gyms (assign police to make sure they do their exercises!). Make it a felony to possess a quarter-pounder.
And yet, there are people who, with a straight face, will tell you that the individual mandate to purchase health insurance is "clearly within Congress' authority under the commerce clause;" that it's not even a close call(!).
The commerce clause, which is being abused to approve anything big government wants, was originally designed to regulate commerce among the states (so that one state couldn't place a tariff on goods from another state), and between the USA and foreign governments and Indians. It was never intended to force commerce.
The government, speaking out of both sides of its mouth, now tries to say the law is really a tax. It's not. If Congress had tried to pass it as a tax, it never would have succeeded. Supporters of the law repeatedly said it was not a tax.
Beyond the obvious fact that the health reform act is unconstitutional, look at the way it has been implemented: thousands of waivers. What happened to equal protection under the law? How can you have a law that some citizens are required to obey, yet other citizens are not?
I will be very disappointed in the Supreme Court, if it fails to rule 9-0 that the law is unconstitutional.
Sadly, I expect to be very disappointed.

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