Without the Constitution, citizens are
subject to the whims of elected officials and whatever agenda they are
pursuing. Well, there’s another straw on the camel’s back of our republic as
the SOTUS ruled that the Senate could ignore the Constitution and push through
Obamacare despite violating several sections. According to Teaparty.org:
The Supreme Court announced today that it will not hear
Sissel v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Pacific Legal
Foundation’s constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
PLF’s case targeted the individual mandate tax specifically, but called for
Obamacare to be struck down in its entirety, because it is a massive tax-raising
bill that began in the Senate instead of the House, as the Constitution
requires.
“It is very disappointing that the Court has chosen not
to hear this important case, because the justices were being asked to uphold
and enforce an important constitutional protection for all taxpayers,” said PLF
Principal Attorney Timothy Sandefur. “At issue was the Constitution’s
Origination Clause, which requires all new taxes to start in the House, the
chamber closest to the people. Obamacare is a massive tax bill, but it was
launched in the Senate through a procedural ploy. The Senate’s subversion of
the constitutionally mandated rules for tax bills is a danger not just in this
case but in future cases as well. By allowing Congress to use procedural tricks
to evade the constitutional rules, the Court has opened the door to Congress
further evading democratic accountability for the laws it passes.”
PLF’s lawsuit focused on Obamacare’s individual mandate,
which requires Americans to buy a federally prescribed insurance plan or pay
what the Supreme Court in 2012 called “a tax on going without health
insurance.” But according to Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), that
is just one of more than a dozen revenue-related planks in Obamacare that
collectively will impose more than $800 billion in new levies. The individual
mandate alone amounts to a $54 billion tax on individuals over ten years, and
$113 billion on businesses, according to the JCT.
Yet Obamacare was not enacted in compliance with
constitutional procedures for raising taxes. Article I, Section 7, of the
Constitution requires that all bills for raising revenue must start in the
House, to keep the taxing power close to the people. But Obamacare began in the
Senate. Majority Leader Harry Reid took an unrelated House bill (a measure to
help veterans buy homes, which raised no revenue), gutted it, and inserted the
language of Obamacare.
If we had a truly free and diligent press, they would
report on this gross violation of the Constitution, and more importantly, would
have highlighted the fraudulent tactic to push through Obamacare.
With the Supreme Court ruling it’s okay for Congress to
ignore the Constitution, there’s little more to do then watch the republic
transform into a tyranny. Something our founders fought to the death to
protect.
What do you think? Is the SOTUS ruling tragic? Leave a
comment with your thoughts below.
http://patriotsunite.com/supreme-court-rules-congress-can-bypass-constitution-when-it-wants/
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