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Four People Who Tried to Save our Constitution

By Art Hyland

Although the decision by 5 out of 9 Supreme Court justices upheld Obamacare, read below how rational and right thinking justices tried valiantly to uphold our infinitely more important Constitution.  Tea Party and all conservatives now have our political marching orders to undo this monster law, and here are the reasons summarized in the words of four justices about whom we should be proud.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

Thursday June 28, 2012

SCALIA, KENNEDY, THOMAS, and ALITO, JJ. dissenting:

“The Constitution, though it dates from the founding of the Republic, has powerful meaning and vital relevance to our own times. The constitutional protections that this case involves are protections of structure. Structural protections—notably, the restraints imposed by federalism and separation of powers—are less romantic and have less obvious a connection to personal freedom than the provisions of the Bill of Rights or the Civil War Amendments. Hence they tend to be undervalued or even forgotten by our citizens.

It should be the responsibility of the Court to teach otherwise, to remind our people that the Framers considered structural protections of freedom the most important ones, for which reason they alone were embodied in the original Constitution and not left to later amendment.

The fragmentation of power produced by the structure of our Government is central to liberty, and when we destroy it, we place liberty at peril.

Today’s decision should have vindicated, should have taught, this truth; instead, our judgment today has disregarded it.”

–SCALIA, KENNEDY, THOMAS, and ALITO, JJ.

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RoseSpice 5 pts

Nothing in the set-up of Obamacare differs essentially from Western European Socialized Medicine - which has basically devolved into a mess that too often ends in Euthanasia for people who have minor medical problems - that the Nation has spread itself too thin to be able to afford.  We've always known this. 

No one will suffer more from it than the poor, and few nations will be left to treat the wealthy much better, for long.  When has a Dollar ever gone further traveling through Govt bureaucrat hands than it does in the private sector.  How often will you begin to have to worry that the govt can make more off selling your body parts than it does by giving you the treatment you think you paid for.

RoseSpice 5 pts

Excellent Article, I am constantly surprised at many USSC and lower court rulings which forget the Constitution as the Foundation of not only their JOBS, but their lifestyles which they take for granted, and expect to continue as before, without the Foundation of the Constitution of the United States of America AS RATIFIED by a supermajority of Americans, when they flagrantly ignore the Will of the Supermajority of American Citizens in their rulings.

Andy Johnson 5 pts

I Why is nobody looking at the tax fairness at application. The tax burden is personal and individual (hence the tax penalty).  

 

Yet if the tax burden is paid by the employer it is free-? How can I receive a gift and not pay taxes on the portion above $11k-? If it is a condition of my employment how can that not be construed as part of my total income-? I cannot believe the IRS will allow another to pay my taxes without considering that I have received a taxable benefit-!  

 

If America sees their Free Lunch Employer Provided Health Insurance (and retirement health insurance) as taxable benefit; I suspect many voters and retirees will consider that a good reason to vote.   I believe that Justice Roberts gave America a huge gift by treating the law as a tax.   It is a political problem with a political solution.  I have enough faith in the IRS to believe that they will not allow another to pay my taxes without considering it either a gift or income.

 

    I wish more would look at the actual, real-life application of the law rather than wasting time looking at the inside baseball style navel gazing.    As employer and/or as an independent citizen how do I meet my tax burden and avoid the penalty-?  

 

Regards, Andy Johnson