U.S. Supreme Court - Centralization of Power and Debt
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 4:31 pm
The United States Supreme Court ruled this week on a case that had at it's heart the centralization of power, economic control and debt.
The Law commonly known as Obamacare was challenged on the grounds that it used the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution to require everyone in the United States to repeatedly ( annually ) buy a product from a private company, even if they did not want or need the product at the time of purchase. The challenge claimed that such a law exceeded the power of the federal government granted by the constitution of the United States.
Had this law been struck down, the trend toward ever more centralization of power and control of the United States economy in the federal government of the United States ( at the expense of the power of the individual citizens of the United States; and at the expense of the power of the sovereign states making up the United States ), would have been slowed and restrained by the Constitution.
Instead of the limiting effect that striking down this law would have had, the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court created an entirely new and unique way to massively increase the centralization of power in the federal government of the United States.
The Chief Justice "discovered" a new taxing power of the federal government which allowed the federal government to tax anyone who did not buy a specific product from a private company, even if they had no need for the product and also no desire to purchase the product, of thousands of dollars a year and that said tax would only apply to people not purchasing a government approved product.
The federal law left standing ( Obamacare ) not only requires the repeated annual purchase of a product costing an ever increasing amount of money, but starting out in excess of $5,000 per year per person, but it also transfers control of 17% of the U.S. economy to the federal government.
The Obamacare law also creates a new debt obligation of the federal government by requiring the federal government to pay an ever increasing percentage of ever increasing costs of health care.
Of course the United Sates federal government is already borrowing 40 cents of every dollar it spends, so how long it can pay this new debt obligation, that will not even kick in until 2014, is an open question.
The Law commonly known as Obamacare was challenged on the grounds that it used the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution to require everyone in the United States to repeatedly ( annually ) buy a product from a private company, even if they did not want or need the product at the time of purchase. The challenge claimed that such a law exceeded the power of the federal government granted by the constitution of the United States.
Had this law been struck down, the trend toward ever more centralization of power and control of the United States economy in the federal government of the United States ( at the expense of the power of the individual citizens of the United States; and at the expense of the power of the sovereign states making up the United States ), would have been slowed and restrained by the Constitution.
Instead of the limiting effect that striking down this law would have had, the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court created an entirely new and unique way to massively increase the centralization of power in the federal government of the United States.
The Chief Justice "discovered" a new taxing power of the federal government which allowed the federal government to tax anyone who did not buy a specific product from a private company, even if they had no need for the product and also no desire to purchase the product, of thousands of dollars a year and that said tax would only apply to people not purchasing a government approved product.
The federal law left standing ( Obamacare ) not only requires the repeated annual purchase of a product costing an ever increasing amount of money, but starting out in excess of $5,000 per year per person, but it also transfers control of 17% of the U.S. economy to the federal government.
The Obamacare law also creates a new debt obligation of the federal government by requiring the federal government to pay an ever increasing percentage of ever increasing costs of health care.
Of course the United Sates federal government is already borrowing 40 cents of every dollar it spends, so how long it can pay this new debt obligation, that will not even kick in until 2014, is an open question.