The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Obama Care. While it struck down the individual mandate on the bases of the commerce clause they upheld it as a tax. The net affect is still upholding of Obama Care.
Surprisingly the deciding Judge surprisingly was not Kennedy, but Roberts. However since the individual mandate was intended to a fine and was never intended to be a tax. In declaring this a tax the U.S. Supreme Court is legislating from the bench by rewriting a law passed by congress to make it Constitutional.
What they did was ruled that the congress’s authority to regulate individual behavior is limited under the commerce clause is limited but unlimited under it taxing authority. So while they can not mandate that you do something and fine you if you don’t they can mandate that you do something and tax you if you don’t. This 100% nitpicking of terms the negative affect on individual liberty is exact the same.
The inevitable affect of this ruling is that unless Obama Care. is repaired the economy will eventually collapse under the weight of a government with uncontrolled power. The immediate affect is likely to be an increase in unemployment as business try to get the money needed for their mandates under Obama Care and smaller business collapse under its weight.
As a result of this ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, the United States can not longer be called a free country. U.S. Supreme Court has effectively reduced us from citizens to subjects of an all powerful Government that can decree that we do something they demand and punish us for not doing it along as call it a tax and not a fine.
So comrades I would like to welcome you to the Slave States of America.
