Does This Infuriating Ruling By The Supreme Court Pave The Way For The
End of U.S. Democracy? John Thomas |
January 29, 2016
Democracies can be fragile things.
Democratic republics, such as ours, unfortunately, suffer from the same
weakness. The problem is that, once any laws that limit power are circumvented,
it’s hard to put the cat back into the bag, and the people who run the asylum…
er… Washington, D.C. can run rampant to trample the average people (now, just
without any pretense of helping us).
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision has put us into that situation where Congress can do what
they want without any pretense of even trying to follow to Constitution. The
Pacific Legal Foundation had filed a constitutional challenge to Obamacare
(Sissel v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services) which sought to
scuttle Obamacare based on contesting the individual mandate tax. The
individual mandate as a tax (even though it often gets paid to private
companies instead of the government) is an issue because the Constitution requires that all increases in taxes
begin in the House of Representatives. In the case of Obamacare, this tax
increase began in the Senate.
The Supreme Court declined to review
the case. This refusal may seem to be no big
deal. You may say, “So what? Does it really matter which part of Congress
initiates a law?” To explain: the court’s refusal to review this case has huge
implications because, if Congress can choose whether to follow small parts of
the Constitution, then they have a legal precedent to begin to flaunt the
Constitution wholesale. This means that we really are one step closer to an
overt tyranny of the political class over everyday people.
Hunger Games here we come.
What do you think Am I overreacting,
or is this really as big a deal as I think that it is? Tell us below.
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