Why
the Court’s Decision is
Worse
than We Thought
The unbelievable Supreme Court health
care decision that decided the individual mandate penalty is actually a tax has
far broader implications than just Obamacare.
The court in essence said that the government can fine us for not doing
anything it wants us to do through their power of taxation. An example given by Pat Buchanan:
"[The ruling] is saying that if Congress, to stimulate the economy, orders every middle-class American to buy a new
car or face a $5,000 fine, such a mandate is within its power.”
That’s right. The Supreme Court did not suggest its ruling
was particular to health care or limited by any outside circumstance. The government has the power to tax, and any
penalty they want to charge us for not doing what they say, is
Constitutional. There doesn’t seem to be
any limit to the size of the tax, either.
The only limit is the result of elections. And though the Congress technically is the
body that imposes taxation, we have seen enough done by executive order the
past four years to know that certain administrations don’t always seem too
interested in the separation of powers.
What, then, will be our resort?
The courts? We’ve seen all too
well how unreliable they can be.
This Supreme Court decision opens the
door for the United States government to control any of our activities through
prohibitive “taxation.” Think it
couldn’t happen? Take a walk through
history.
Forget that, span the globe
today. In China, illegal pregnancies can
get someone a fine equal to five years’ wages.
When you inevitably can’t pay, forced abortion. In Muslim countries, Christians are often
levied a tax for being “infidels.”
In the United States the government is
already trying to force all of us to pay for abortions, and our Catholic
institutions are being forced to provide contraception, abortifacients, and
sterilizations. Christian speech is under
attack, Planned Parenthood curriculum is force-fed to our children in public
schools, large families are scorned.
Many of these things are not just products of culture, but projects of
Washington.
The Supreme Court has now given our
elected representatives the power to levy crippling taxes on anyone who does
not stay in line.
Please understand, I am not saying
this is where we are right now. But I am
also not so naïve as to believe it is unthinkable. We may defeat Obamacare in November, but we
also had better keep our eyes open. I
would like to see the Court (after it has gone through some improvements) take
this issue up again. It is too dangerous
to let stand.
