I'm saying to skip if you approve because you will not change my mind on this one. The federal government has been overstepping its constitutional boundaries for years, and now the SCOTUS is giving them permission to go further.


I'm siding with the dissenting side - Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas

~Kennedy summarized the dissent in court. "In our view, the act before us is invalid in its entirety," he said.

The dissenters said in a joint statement that the law "exceeds federal power both in mandating the purchase of health insurance and in denying non-consenting states all Medicaid funding."~

From the winning side - "a penalty for refusing to buy health insurance amounts to a tax and thus is permitted"...?

So I pay tax on what I do buy (sales tax) and what I don't buy (penalty). Lovely. Why don't they just take our entire paycheck and give us an allowance? Wouldn't that be easier? They can just pay for everything...oh, right, the feds are in debts up to the eyeballs of the next several generations ~ how the hell do they plan on "helping" those who can't afford it?

Oh, and lets not forget the UNELECTED oversight committee - the Independent Payment Advisory Board! See a synopsis - IPAB. There's a cheery thought.

Read this!