Comments on: Judicial Watch Statement on Supreme Court Obamacare Decision

By: geg713@msn.com

geg713@msn.com — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:09:42 +0000

The Supreme Court screwed up. Let’s face it. Kagan should have abstained, based on her prior involvement as a puppet under Obama as stated above.

By: js@jobberonline.net

js@jobberonline.net — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:00:19 +0000

The ruling violated the Constitution. Taxes, except for Income taxes, but be equally apportioned. The penalty “tax” isn’t, because people who can afford health insurance do not pay the penalty. The payment of premiums to private companies is not a tax; therefore, apportionment of this “tax” violates the US Constitution.
Now, tell me if I am wrong here, but isn’t Congress the only entity in the USA that is allowed to create taxes (in federal government that is)? If you consider that Obamacare didn’t make the penalty a tax, then you must assume that it is a penalty imposed for failure to buy health insurance. If the legislation does not impose such a “tax” on the American People, the SCOTUS has no power to recognize it as a tax. It doesn’t matter that the Congress has the power to tax the American People, if the Congress did not explicitly establish a tax, there is no tax. By recognizing it as a tax, the SCOTUS violate the US Constitution, by establishing the Obamacare penalty as a tax, because the SCOTUS does not have the power to create taxes. The SCOTUS is limited to power they have; which is to interpret the legislation AS IT IS WRITTEN, and rule on that basis alone.
The SCOTUS ruling that the penalty is a tax violated the separation of powers. The Judicial Branch has no right or authority to do that, and accordingly, the action is bad conduct and grounds to impeach multiple SCOTUS Justices. This assumes that good conduct itself is acting under the authority of the Judicial Branch, within the powers given to it by the constitution. Usurping the power of Congress is bad conduct.

By: aritchie1@verizon.net

aritchie1@verizon.net — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:42:50 +0000

Judicial Watch also uncovered documents detailing Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s role in Obamacare discussions when she served as President Obama’s Solicitor General.

“WHERE ARE THE CHECKS AND BALANCES THAT WE WERE TAUGHT IN CIVICS CLASSES THAT WE HAD IN OUR CONSTITUTION SO THAT THIS KIND OF THING COULDN’T HAPPEN?”
“I THINK THEY ARE HERE BUT NO ONE IN CONGRESS HAS THE GUTS TO USE THEM.”

By: marshalynnr@yahoo.com

marshalynnr@yahoo.com — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:30:38 +0000

To Robin: Any relation to Tom Fitton? Do you currently reside in America? In answer to your last questions, the aim of this administration SHOULD be, as in all administrations, to uphold and protect our basic rights and freedoms as Americans under law, which, to our dismay, they refuse to do if they conflict with their current, political agenda and world view. They believe our constitution is a “living, breathing document” subject to revision, which many, including myself, do not. While we all would like to see everyone have basic health care, we differ strongly on the way to go about it. There is much at stake in this upcoming election, none so dear to many Americans as the basic freedoms of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, which our founding fathers lived and died for as stated in our Declaration of Independence.

By: Robin Fitton

Robin Fitton — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:24:26 +0000

I would argue that public, easy to access health care is a good thing. I am from the England where we have a National Health Service. I pay for it within my standard annual tax bill. However from a US constitutional perspective I can see how this looks like an imposition on the population. What was the ultimate aim of this legislation? Is it to provide health care to lower income families?

By: usagill@hotmail.com

usagill@hotmail.com — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:41:02 +0000

Exactly what tax is he talking about an indirect tax or a direct tax and exactly what is he taxing??????? Criminals.

By: usagill@hotmail.com

usagill@hotmail.com — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:40:01 +0000

I would like to know when we can impeach everyone on the bench and all the members of congress and the president too.
They are all traitors.

By: marshalynnr@yahoo.com

marshalynnr@yahoo.com — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:44:56 +0000

“I second Tom Fitton’s observation that “the decision is monstrous” and would add that it is disastrous to our individual and national spiritual health and well-being. Obamacare not only enslaves all Americans, it mocks the original intent of “The Declaration of Independence” which secures our “unalienable Rights…(of) Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” and condemns us to a culture of death.